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Industry is growing day by day. This sentence may look very simple but it has many meaning. With Industry 4.0 and IoT, robotic technologies have been gaining more importance. Most production lines need more automation and robots for many reasons. These reasons may be the topic of an another post. Let's go back the subject of this post.  Many people asked me "What do you do in your job?" when we met for the first time. I always try to explain my job in its simplest form if this person don't know anything about industrial robots and programming. I prefer to say robot with "industrial". Because if I say just robots, people think about the robots like cinematographic way. For that I explained " What Is Robot? " in my one of old post. Sometimes high school students asked me the same questions for future career plans. In this way I feel responsible to tell my job fully to be aware of. I decided to gather all of my experiences about this description in on...

After a few questions about offline simulation platform of Yaskawa Motoman Robotics which is called MotoSimVRC, I decided to write a quick post to collect the answers. So I listed the questions below and tried to explain briefly.  How to get  MotoSimVRC? You can find the latest version(and older versions, too) of the  MotoSimVRC from this link . Important note: You have to register this site with your company e-mail only. After applying for being a member to website, you need to have at least two days for verification(it was like that when I have done). In addition to that, this membership has 2 years duration. After two years, your membership is expired. Fig : After Login After login you can access the download link from Download Area -> Application Software. Is this software licensed? Simply yes. This software is licensed by Yaskawa. But they offer a demo mode which can used only for 90 days and it is not intended for productional usage. All software packages ar...

    In this post, I would like to mention about wiring of  Ethernet cable with RJ45 connector for some Ethernet-based communication protocols. This is such an important topic for an electrician/engineer to wire Ethernet cable correctly for providing good working network between industrial equipments and their peripheral of devices' communication.      Historically, most of industrial equipments/components have been connected through serial fieldbus protocols such as  Control Area Network (CAN), Modbus®, PROFIBUS® and CC-Link. In modern industrial world, Ethernet-based communication protocols have gained more importance and popularity than old technology after the spreading Industy 4.0 and IOT(Internet Of Things) idea with offering high speed, increased connection distances, the ability to connect more nodes and reducing engineering efforts to connect the devices each others.  There are many different industrial Ethernet protocols driven by va...

    I would like mention about movement principle of robots and some important motion types. So let's start with the Movement Principle of industrial robots. Movement Principle      Industrial robots aim to go from one point to the specific position which can be named as " pose to pose movement ". It means clearly " move from the current position to the new position ". All story starts with this motion concept. Besides that, robots make some special tasks using industrial equipments(we can call them as tool in some states) such as material handling, palletizing/depalletizing, painting, arc welding/spot welding on the specified path. Robot programming includes some special robot movement commands and when moving on the path robot run special commands to control the environment such as PLC, sensors, actuators and valves. Path can be explained as " The continuous locus of positions(or points in three dimensional space) traversed by the tool center point and d...

         I tought that If my blog focus on Robotics in particular  Industrial  Robotics so we  will look into the Industrial Robotics in this post. We are going to start "What Is Robot?" and then to continue with specially "Industrial Robotics". Before mentioning "Robots", I would like to mention the importance&location of the Robots in our near future. Most of the time robots are subjected in the sci-fiction novels and cinema(thanks to the  Karel Čapek and  Isaac Asimov ). So it makes Robots more special in our lives. It is  increasingly   getting more valuable in either social life and industrial production day by day. " These robots are perhaps most familiar to the world through their highly popular videos-the Boston Dynamics YouTube channel, for example, as of May 2020 has 1.72 Million subscribers, making it probably the largest YouTube channel focused on robotics. "   (It could be seen from Google Trend...

     What Is Axes?  If we look at the meaning of the "axis" from the dictionary we can find the meaning of " an imaginary line through the center of an object, around which the object turns " . In the other hand, in robotic terminology we can explain the the axis; " A direction used to specify the robot motion in a lienar or rotary mode(ISO 8373) ".     An axis in robotic represents basically the "degree of freedom"( DOF ). In the industry there are many kind of industrial robots that have different axes configurations (degree of freedom) in the ranges through two axes to fifteen axes robots. It depends on the type of the application.  Fig : Cartesian Robots: Two Or Three Sliding Axes Fig : SDA Series 15 Axes Robot[ For Detail ]      For example; we have six axes robot, it means that this robot can move in six different ways could be moved. This means a robot can move in X, y and z planes as well as position itself using roll, pitch...

     Firstly, before starting to introduce myself I would like to mention about the title of this introduction post. "Hello World" is such an important word groups for starting a programming language. This is probably first "output" for every software language learners. So I would like to start with them, too.        I am an electric-electronic engineer since 2017. While in my university life I was dealing with Fuzzy Logic and Image Processing. After graduation I have started to work on industrial robotics and SCADA/HMI, energy monitoring especially to collect data about daily/weekly/monthly/yearly energy consumption for company and detailing the question that "How many products are produced? versus How much energy(water, steam, electric) were used?". We can simply call it "productivity" for a specific production lines individually and company.       This is my personal blog for sharing some experiences on industrial programmin...