Troubleshooting And Error Recovery; General Procedure When Troubleshooting - ABB IRC5 with FlexPendant Operating Manual

6.2 Troubleshooting and error recovery

6.2.1 General procedure when troubleshooting

Types of faults
Faults occurring in the robot system may be of two categories:
Faults causing error message on the FlexPendant
The control system is supplied with diagnostic software to facilitate troubleshooting
and to reduce downtime. Any errors detected by the diagnostics are displayed in
plain language with a code number on the FlexPendant.
All system and error messages are logged in a common log in which the last 150
messages are saved. The log can be accessed from the Status bar on the
FlexPendant.
To facilitate troubleshooting, it is important that some basic principles are followed.
These are specified in troubleshooting principles in Operating
manual - Troubleshooting IRC5.
Faults NOT causing error messages on the FlexPendant
These faults are not detected by the diagnostic system and are handled in other
ways. The way the symptom of the fault is observed greatly influences the type of
fault. Instructions are given in section Other types of faults in Operating
manual - Troubleshooting IRC5.
To troubleshoot faults NOT causing error messages on the FlexPendant, follow
steps 3 and 4 in the procedure above.
Other possible actions
Some errors may require running a service routine. See section
on page
Operating manual - IRC5 with FlexPendant
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• Faults detected by the built-in diagnostics system. These faults are described
in section Event log messages in Operating manual - Troubleshooting IRC5.
• Faults NOT detected by the built-in diagnostics system. These faults are
described in section Other types of faults in Operating
manual - Troubleshooting IRC5.
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