Hi,
We are looking at an application where we want to use a UR 5 to glue objects to a shaft, however there are a number of different sized shafts with various sized objects. Ideally we wanted to integrate a barcode reader directly into the UR to call up different subroutines for each different part .However we are not sure if integrating the barcode reader directly to the UR is possible or if it had to be integrated with an external PLC or PC first. If anyone has any experience with this please let me know! Thanks!

@C_Hoover so long as the bar code reader you're using can do socket communication as a server then you can directly hook into the UR robot. With Cognex, you send a socket command to trigger the camera and then listen for the return message which would be the results of the image. 

You would first ipen open a connection to the camera, send a string and then read a string. 

Hope that helps. 

Thank you! While we are interested in the robotique vision system it is a bit overkill for what we are doing at the moment. We are also currently looking to see if we can upgrade our unit in house to the 3.1 unit to be able to demo the camera in the future since if I'm not mistaken you need that for it to work. 

Thank you, I saw that post awhile back and forgot to pursue it further. Do you know if that is essentially just a new "computer" portion that you purchase from UR?