The Motoman XRC Teach Pendant

One thing that sets a teach pen­dant apart from its com­peti­tors is its ease of use. In 1998, the Motoman XRC teach pen­dant was the best in that area, even win­ning an award for its user-friend­ly design.

The XRC teach pen­dant was the next step for Motoman after the MRC four years ear­li­er. The XRC Motoman teach pen­dant was able to con­trol up to 27 axes, where ear­li­er mod­els were lim­it­ed to 21. Designed for the UP series of robots from Motoman, this teach pen­dant could syn­chro­nize not two, but four robots at one time, which added even more speed to weld­ing, paint­ing and pal­letiz­ing automation.

The XRC pen­dant, mod­el num­bers JZNC-XPP20B, JZNC-XPP04B, JZNC-XPP02B, and the JZNC-XPP02, was the first one with a Win­dows inter­face, which is what gives it the ease of use. New fea­tures for this teach pen­dant includ­ed form cut­ting, shock sen­sors and the abil­i­ty to accel­er­ate or decel­er­ate the robot as necessary.

This JZNC XPP02 teach pen­dant from Motoman also con­tained sev­er­al types of PC-like soft­ware for file trans­fers and offline pro­gram­ming, and there were even sim­u­la­tions avail­able for the robot­ic system.

These XRC JZNCXPP02B Motoman teach pen­dants are still being used by many fac­to­ries today and remain in good work­ing order, just like the robots they con­trol. This was just one more step in Motoman’s push toward excel­lence in the 1990s – an impor­tant step that ush­ered in even fur­ther suc­cess in the new millennium.

To learn more about the Motoman XRC JZNCXPP-04B, or any of Motoman’s oth­er teach pen­dants, con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.