ArcTool Software

Robots​.com offers Arc­Tool Appli­ca­tion soft­ware for Fanuc as a rec­om­mend­ed option for arc weld­ing appli­ca­tions. This rec­om­mend­ed option helps increase the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and qual­i­ty of your Arc Weld­ing appli­ca­tion. The Arc­Tool appli­ca­tion soft­ware was designed with sim­plic­i­ty in mind; it is easy to load and pre-pack­aged to match the robot con­fig­u­ra­tion of your spe­cif­ic set­up. It pro­vides the user with a unique process solu­tion to robot­ic arc weld­ing require­ments, includ­ing the stan­dard­iz­ing of the set­up and oper­a­tion of Fanuc robot arc weld­ing appli­ca­tions.

This pro­gram ulti­mate­ly helps the oper­a­tor eas­i­ly pro­gram the robot with its built-in arc weld­ing func­tion­al­i­ty and point-and-shoot posi­tion teach­ing. The teach pen­dant is very easy to use with its com­mon weld­ing ter­mi­nol­o­gy. It also offers full func­tion­al­i­ty with a large dis­play for a full view of weld­ing process set­up, oper­a­tion, and trou­bleshoot­ing includ­ing diag­nos­tics, sta­tus report­ing, and error recov­ery information.

Ben­e­fits:

• The oper­a­tor has full con­trol over the weld­ing process.
• The instruc­tions for arc weld­ing are writ­ten in easy-to-under­stand words, rather than cod­ed commands.
• There is ​“plug and play” sim­plic­i­ty with Lin­coln Electric’s Pow­er­Wave 455, 350, or STT power.
• Mul­ti-task­ing capa­bil­i­ty helps to decrease exe­cu­tion time and enables con­trol of exter­nal devices usu­al­ly con­trolled by a pro­gram­ma­ble log­ic cell controller.
• The Arc Process and motion con­trol improves weld process qual­i­ty with the abil­i­ty to look ahead, ulti­mate­ly result­ing in faster arc starts and enhanced productivity.
• Pow­er fail recov­ery capa­bil­i­ty that recov­ers data in the event of a pow­er loss. 
• Con­fig­urable with all major brands of weld­ing equip­ment and can inter­face with most types of ser­vo-dri­ven or index­ing positioners.
• To fur­ther help increase arc on-time and cycle speeds, there is the advanced ser­vo con­trol, Tur­bo­Move, which allows quick and smooth point-to-point motion. 
• There is inde­pen­dent con­trol of up to five motion groups to help sup­port over­lap­ping motion of ser­vo-con­trolled periph­er­al devices.
• To help reduce arc start faults, there is a scratch start func­tion with an auto­mat­ic recov­ery process.
• The arc and weave sched­ule data can be entered direct­ly at the instruc­tion or in an easy-to-use sched­ule data table, pro­vid­ed with the most appro­pri­ate lev­el of flex­i­bil­i­ty for their needs.
• Posi­tion­al data can be hot edit­ed to enable pro­gram posi­tion adjust­ment while pro­duc­tion is run­ning. This leads to even fur­ther robot uptime and part throughput.
• There is also an ​“on-the-fly” fea­ture that allows the chang­ing of weld process data while the pro­gram is run­ning pro­duc­tion. With this, oper­a­tors can fine-tune process data on the fly, increas­ing the qual­i­ty of the weld with­out any downtime.
• To help speed up trou­bleshoot­ing and repair, the I/O menu uti­lizes Eng­lish labels on ded­i­cat­ed weld process I/O and periph­er­al device con­trol I/O. Also, the volt­age, cur­rent, and wire-feed speeds are dis­played in large char­ac­ters on the teach pen­dant to allow more flex­i­bil­i­ty in weld equip­ment place​ment​.To fur­ther help improve weave per­for­mance and weld­abil­i­ty and qual­i­ty, there are sinu­soidal, cir­cu­lar, and fig­ure 8 weave patterns.

Options:

There are a vari­ety of options avail­able with the Arc­Tool appli­ca­tion soft­ware pack­age. A few of these options include Data Mon­i­tor, Cycle Time Log­ging and Dis­play, Fault and Inci­dent Report­ing, and Email client. 

Exam­ple pic­tures below are cred­it­ed to Fanuc Robot­ics.

Data Mon­i­tor:

A very sim­ple user inter­face that allows easy set­up and cus­tomiza­tion. It is a data acqui­si­tion sys­tem that pro­vides func­tion­al­i­ty to sam­ple, mon­i­tor, and record data. The data mon­i­tor is use­ful for ana­lyz­ing the cur­rent feed­back for through arc Seam Track­ing (TAST) appli­ca­tions. It allows up to six items to be sam­pled at one time includ­ing I/O, sys­tem vari­ables, reg­is­ters, and KAREL vari­ables. The data that is record­ed can then be dis­played on the iPen­dant and/​or for­mat­ted into a data file that is eas­i­ly import­ed into a spread­sheet pro­gram. The oper­a­tor or PLC can also be alert­ed if a para­me­ter goes out­side its defined limits.

Cycle Time Log­ging and Display: 

Able to pro­vide motion, process, appli­ca­tion, and fault times by track­ing indi­vid­ual cycles and hourly aver­ages. Mul­ti­ple cycles can also be viewed on the iPen­dant to observe trends. The cycle time data can be saved to a text file for view­ing offline.

Fault and Inci­dent Reporting: 

Helps to eas­i­ly iden­ti­fy which faults are caus­ing the most down­time by graph­i­cal­ly dis­play­ing robot fault infor­ma­tion. The view­ing of a bar graph enables prob­lem areas to be iden­ti­fied, show­ing the top five faults by inci­dent, longest time, and total time, all dur­ing production.

Email Client:

Enables the shar­ing of infor­ma­tion to spe­cif­ic user groups by email, pager, or text mes­sage. The robot can send pro­duc­tion, down­time, or qual­i­ty infor­ma­tion by email that is ini­ti­at­ed by a user or a spe­cif­ic event.

Con­tact Robots​.com Today! 

Are you inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about the Arc­Tool Soft­ware Pack­age? Then you should give Robots​.com a call! Robots​.com pro­vides solu­tions from many dif­fer­ent robot­ics com­pa­nies, includ­ing Fanuc, Motoman, ABB, and KUKA. Our team of experts will work with you to help you find the best option for your pro­duc­tion needs.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.