Need to move PP to main restart [PickMaster 3]

PickMaster
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Hi,

we often have an issue with one IRB340. After a stop of the line, er can’t restart the robot from PM. We need to manually move PP to MAIN on the Teach Pendant.

Does anyone can help me with this issue? Since we ae using RIS, It’s a big problem to run to the Pendant to restart the robot. Can I move PP to main by programming someting that a PLC could do from a HMI?

Thanks

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Hello,

this problem may occur if the robot tracks the conveyor out of reach. Tuning the enter/exit may remove/limit the problem. If it occurs, one way to recover (except PP to MAIN) is to stop the robot and then restart it, this will work with Rw5.10 on the controller but not earlier releases.

Best regards, Anders

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Hi Nick,

Like Anders say the best way is to adjust the enter/exit limit to avoid the robot going outside working range and you will never get the Blocked state issue. But we have use an other solution before we get the New PM, we have implemented on the 12 robots pushbuttons (this could be a PLC signal) who is activating a system input “start at main”.

BR,

Fabrice