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arnoldgauge
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Hi all,
I'd like to put a "traditional" menu-based user interface view for an application on the teach pendant. While I haven't thought through the functionality, it would look like the normal block buttons you'd see on a traditional HMI. Things like:
Auto Mode
Toggle Pneumatic Valves
How have folks done this in the past?
I'd like to put a "traditional" menu-based user interface view for an application on the teach pendant. While I haven't thought through the functionality, it would look like the normal block buttons you'd see on a traditional HMI. Things like:
Auto Mode
- Run Auto Sequence 1 (Behind the scenes load and run a program)
- Run Auto Sequence 2 (Behind the scenes runs a separate program)
- etc.
Toggle Pneumatic Valves
- Toggle Valve #1 (Sends a specific Modbus command to the pneumatic valve stack)
- Toggle Valve #2 (Sends a specific Modbus command to the pneumatic valve stack)
- etc.
- Open Gripper
- Close Gripper
How have folks done this in the past?
We use Siemens PLC's and HMI's with profinet and it is pretty straightforward and the pricing is not too bad. Much less expensive hardware and license fees than you have with AB PLC's.
I was thinking more of a parent-program calling sub-programs. Or a full-screen UR-Cap that displays a menu simply calls programs or scripts. While we can train the operators to find the "File - Load" command, an overlay would be nice.
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Would any experienced programmer with UR-CAP experience be interested in doing this as a paid project?