Robot Programming with ABB's RobotStudio

The best way to max­i­mize return on invest­ment for robot stu­dios is offline pro­gram­ming. ABB​’s Robot­Stu­dio, sim­u­la­tion and offline pro­gram­ming soft­ware, allows robot pro­gram­ming to be done with­out shut­ting down pro­duc­tion. A PC in the office is used for the pro­gram­ming while man­u­fac­tur­ing con­tin­ues on schedule.

Robot­Stu­dio enables the oper­a­tor to per­form train­ing, pro­gram­ming, and opti­miza­tion with­out dis­turb­ing pro­duc­tion. Risk reduc­tion, quick start-up, short change-over, and increased pro­duc­tiv­i­ty are all result­ing benefits.

Robot­Stu­dio is built on the ABB Vir­tu­al­Con­troller, an exact copy of the actu­al soft­ware that runs the robots in pro­duc­tion, allow­ing real­is­tic simulations.

Robot­Stu­dio 5.15 comes with a RAPID edi­tor. All ABB robots are pro­grammed using the RAPID lan­guage. The RAPID edi­tor pro­vides a devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment sim­i­lar to Microsoft Visu­al Stu­dio and gives sug­ges­tions and sup­port as the oper­a­tor writes the robot pro­gram. Default argu­ments can be filled in auto­mat­i­cal­ly and instan­ta­neous feed­back is pro­vid­ed on the cor­rect­ness of the code.

The Robot­Stu­dio Basic Func­tion­al­i­ty mode can be down­loaded and used for free. The Pre­mi­um Func­tion­al­i­ty mode must be pur­chased, but can be tried for thir­ty days free of charge.

The ABB Robot­Stu­dio web­site pro­vides resources for new users like blogs, a YouTube chan­nel and Face­book page, and a forum for shar­ing con­tent and ideas.

Robot­ic pro­gram­ming can be made easy with tools like this from ABB. Robots​.com can help you inte­grate and choose the right pro­gram­ming option for your robot. If you would like more infor­ma­tion, con­tact us online or call 877−762−6881.