Basic Characteristics RAPID

RAPID Summary Spot Welding
SpotWare Plus also contains the following features:
- User defined open/close gun and supervision
- User defined pressure setting
- User defined preclose time calculation
- SpotL current data information
- User defined autonomous supervision, such as state controlled weld current
signal and water cooling start.
- Manual weld, gun open and gun close initiated by digital input
- Weld process start disregarding the in position event, is possible
12.2 Principles of SpotWare
When a SpotL instruction is executed, one main sequence consisting of motion and
logical instructions is executed.
During the motion it is possible to set predefined signals but not execution of RAPIDcode.
For well defined entries, calls to user routines offer adaptations to the plant environment.
A number of predefined parameters are also available to shape the behaviour of
the SpotL instruction.
The RAPID part of SpotL is executing only when the user’s program is running. If the
user program stops, then the internal RAPID execution of SpotL will stop immediately.
Supported equipment:
- One weld timer monitoring with standard parallel (some serial) interface
- Single/dual on-off gun with one signal/tip for closing the gun and one for setting
opening gap
- Pressure level preset 1..4.
12.3 Principles of SpotWare Plus
SpotWare Plus is based on a separate handling of motion, spot-welding and supervision.
On its way towards the programmed position, the motion task will trigger actions
in the spot-welding tasks.
The triggers are activated by virtual digital signals.
The tasks work with their own internal encapsulated variables and with persistents
which are fully transparent for all tasks.
A program stop will only stop the motion task execution. The process and supervision
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