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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...

Manipulator Model:  Yaskawa Motoman GP180 Controller Model : YRC1000 Application:  Handling and Palletizing This morning I faced an annoying problem, which was related to robot movement through the programmed steps during the playback. For solving this problem, I tried some solutions and as a result, I am thinking that I solved this problem. Therefore, I decided to create a post for problem definition and solving of this problem.  Shortly explaining my problem, when robot goes from one point to the another point robot tool is turning 360 degree at around itself to reach same coordinate. It may causes major problems such as collide with something at the cell, destroying cables of sensors onto the tool. On the other hand, this type of movement had no sense to move like that. (Who wants extra paths and movements at the robot?).  To reach the solution, I tried three steps, which are listed below: Change the orientation degrees of the point data. (Sending away Rx, Ry and ...

    "Trend" is an another important concept in industrial automation systems and most of the time trends and graphics essentially use in automation systems. Movicon 11 SCADA provides us very flex and strong toll which should be used in many different kind of industry. I used Trends at my last Energy Monitoring project intensively which basically show the daily changing of the energy consumption such as Water , Steam , Nitrogen  and Electric . They shows So I decided to write a post which is related to the Trend with a basic example. I listed ingredients of the sample program below; Basic Script Trigonometric computation at each second change Event The script will be executed at every system second is changed System Variable and Double Type Variables System second for event Double variables;  Degree [0...360], Sinus Value [-1...1] and Cosine Value [-1...1] Some Important Links YouTube Link Sample Programs and Documents     The data that you w...

    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...

     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...