Introduction; Product Overview - ABB SmarTac Applications Manual

1 Introduction

1.1 Product overview

General
SmarTac™ is a tactile sensor used to find the location of inconsistent weld joints
and offset the programmed points in a weld program.
Main component
The main component is an electronic sensor board, which detects contact with the
part feature to be located. The SmarTac™ board is supplied as an add-on unit and
installed in the robot cabinet.
RAPID system module
A RAPID system module, SmarTac.sys, provided by ABB supports powerful
programming tools explained in
Searching with SmarTac
SmarTac searching can be added to programs while programming a part, or it can
be added to a pre-existing weld routine.
Application manual - SmarTac
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