Is there a way to incorporate into a part program to ask the operator what tool changer slot is currently loaded? PC-DMIS would then accept the slot the operator has specified. My goal is to create a part program in the event that a part program is aborted. I want the operator to be able to move the probe to a safe area for rotation to A0B0 before it approaches the tool changer. Thanks.
Gary Gosine, I don't think you will be able to get all of the information you are looking for without using scripting. Even then, assuming you are able to get what PC-DMIS
thinks is the currently loaded probe, there is no fool-proof way of knowing what is
actually loaded other than physically checking yourself or maybe employing some sort of RFID and reader or a barcode and scanner. As you have said yourself, the reason you are wanting this is because you cannot trust your operators and, no matter how idiot proof you think you may make something, trust me, someone will come along who dives to a much deeper depth of idiocy than you ever anticipated and royally mess everything up.
As I've said, PC-DMIS only stores or has available what it has requested, not necessarily what the actual "real-time" state of the system is. Most of that information is only available at the controller level and is inaccessible to customers / automation.
Gary Gosine, I don't think you will be able to get all of the information you are looking for without using scripting. Even then, assuming you are able to get what PC-DMIS
thinks is the currently loaded probe, there is no fool-proof way of knowing what is
actually loaded other than physically checking yourself or maybe employing some sort of RFID and reader or a barcode and scanner. As you have said yourself, the reason you are wanting this is because you cannot trust your operators and, no matter how idiot proof you think you may make something, trust me, someone will come along who dives to a much deeper depth of idiocy than you ever anticipated and royally mess everything up.
As I've said, PC-DMIS only stores or has available what it has requested, not necessarily what the actual "real-time" state of the system is. Most of that information is only available at the controller level and is inaccessible to customers / automation.
