Setting Limits; Adding Production Monitoring™/Checkpoint™ To Welding Programs - Lincoln Electric POWER WAVE MANAGER IM8002 Operator's Manual

FANUC® Robot Application (Prior to v7.70P/21)
Production Monitoring™/CheckPoint™ Installed and/or Set up
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For Production Monitoring™, the software from the Production Monitoring™ CD has been
installed on a computer connected to the same network as the Welding Power Source or the
robot.
If using CheckPoint™, be sure your company's account has been created and the robot's IP
registered in the data center. Please refer to the appropriate User Manual for detailed
information.

Setting Limits

Before Production Monitoring™/CheckPoint™ is enabled for the robot, limits have to be established ahead
of time. Power Wave® Manager has a built-in tool to simplify this task called Weld Profile Training. By
running a series of test welds, the Training function will collect data and automatically calculate a set of
limits that can be used as a starting point and adjusted as needed. See Chapter 11 for more in-depth
information.
Adding Production Monitoring™/CheckPoint™ to Welding Programs
Two programs, also already installed in the robot, will be run at the time of the weld: one to select the
Weld Profile titled PM_SEL and one to compare data titled PM_VER. They will be listed in the Select key
program listing along with all other programs. Through the use of a CALL instruction, PM_SEL will be
selected and run just before the ARC START point is recorded. After the ARC END point instruction,
PM_VER will be selected and run. When these two instructions are entered, a Weld Profile number (1
through 32) will be identified as part of the instruction.
Here is a sample weld program:
1: J P[1] 100% CNT100
2: J P[2] 100% CNT100
3: CALL PM_SEL(1)
4: J P[3] 100% FINE
ARC START[1]
5: L P[4] 40 in/min FINE
ARC END[1]
6: CALL PM_VER(1)
7: J P[5] 100% CNT100
8: J P[1] 100% CNT100
END
To teach the Production Monitoring™/CheckPoint™ instructions:
Procedure
1.
Press F1-INST.
2.
Cursor to the line CALL and press Enter.
3.
At new submenu, cursor to line Call Program
and press Enter.
IM8002
Details
A list of programs appears.
Power Wave® Manager User Manual
Appendix B. FANUC Robots
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