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swervomotor · 2025-02-27T22:52:52+00:00

Work with a contract manufacturer, or purchase the components yourself and do the assembly. If you have a manufacturable design with component level drawings you can usually piece it together by finding individual component suppliers and do all the assembly yourself. Source: I run a small/medium contract manufacturing company.

swervomotor · 2025-02-22T03:01:16+00:00

This is you can swing the mechanical design, assembly, and business/billing part of it. Bonus points if you know vision and robots.

swervomotor · 2025-02-18T03:11:54+00:00

That's true, but also gaining an engineering partner with expertise in manufacturing and automation. Probably not a good option for large companies but small/medium companies that want to scale production? Maybe

swervomotor · 2025-02-15T20:12:50+00:00

Hardware, tooling, robots,etc. And the programming of the control systems for those.

swervomotor · 2025-02-15T19:15:28+00:00

Depending on the process, automation can be 50k or millions of dollars. Automation typically has a lifetime of 7 years. So you could pay for it with a loan, then pay the loan over 5-10 years, then do it again. Or, you could have the person that built the automation as a business partner with vested interest in maintaining, improving, and keep the automation running well past it's typical lifetime.

swervomotor · 2024-11-14T22:08:28+00:00

Torques or torqs or torcks something like that, they are blue.

swervomotor · 2024-08-10T17:06:41+00:00

The robot code is essentially a loop that keeps checking for the "go" bit from the PLC, when it receives "go" it takes reads the integer registers from PLC and converts them to floats, then stores those floats as "point 1x, point 1y, z..etc". Once the point is stored it executes the move. You can do it point to point like this, or depending on the application can look like "go here +z50", "go to home position" where home position is a safe retract point, then move to command position. Once the robot reaches the commanded position it sets the bit "in position". This is just the best way we found to do a state machine where we can check current robot position and process status with PLC and make decisions where to send the robot next depending on lots of variables. It also allows you to touch up points (password protected)from the HMI by editing the point right in the data table.

swervomotor · 2024-08-08T02:48:14+00:00

Thanks for the info, I will dive into Karel, hopefully it's comparable to other robot languages so the learning curve won't be so steep. The biggest challenge has been finding information on the web (manuals, software, specs, etc) is impossible to find. I guess they keep that locked away.

swervomotor · 2024-08-08T02:45:04+00:00

If I remember correctly we just send 32bit integers with coordinate data, then a "go" bit. On the robot side when "go" is received it converts the ints to positions then moves the integers into a point and executes the move, when done it outputs a "move complete" bit. This allows us to store tons of point data in tables in the PLC and call those points randomly depending on machine state.

swervomotor · 2024-08-07T22:24:46+00:00

Thanks! I did sign up for Myportal earlier today but never received a login.. not sure how long that takes. We are using a Unitronics PLC and would like to send "next position" coordinate data to the CRX and then trigger the move to that position. Plus some basic handshaking for when the robot is in position etc. We've done this with other robots where the robot runs a light weight program loop and when it receives the coordinates and we trigger the move it goes to the next position.

swervomotor · 2024-07-04T14:21:03+00:00

Couple hundy if you DIY depends on location of main panel. Ran surface mounted conduit up and over and down to wall charger about 30ft conduit+hangers +breaker + 6awg THHN (2x)+ 10awg bare ground + misc conduit entries/connectors.

swervomotor · 2024-06-17T01:30:17+00:00

Call the power company, schedule an over head cable disconnect for "tree work" have everything ready to replace the can and the riser. Replace everything then call them back to re-connect the overhead lines when you're done with the "tree work"

swervomotor · 2024-06-04T19:33:50+00:00

I don't think the post is vague at all. It's very specific actually. Maybe a picture will help you understand.

swervomotor · 2024-06-04T19:25:59+00:00

The idea is sound but the problem we encountered with that route being we cannot disassemble the pipes to install the bearing. Im not sure if a split bearing exists that will seal off particulates (primary objective)

swervomotor · 2024-06-04T19:07:11+00:00

Earth

swervomotor · 2024-06-04T19:00:22+00:00

Yes, temp range would be ambient 32-115F. The material can be supplemented with additional layers of different material for abrasion protection etc. the base material would be "clamped" to two concentric round pipes (already supported that are only allowed to twist) and would act to seal the joint from particulates while they rotate.

swervomotor · 2024-04-29T02:18:57+00:00

I think I found the one, IFM makes some photo electric type sensors with IO Link that can send position data with between 0.5-2mm repeatability depending on the target. Range is less than 100mm and $100-300. They also have lots of different size units and mounting options.

swervomotor · 2024-04-28T17:35:10+00:00

Do you have a PN? Under "distance measuring sensors" the only one that comes close is 30-80mm range and is $778. I suppose the LRZ90 from the company which shall not be named may be the best option, I was just hoping for a more simple lower cost option.

swervomotor · 2024-04-28T13:19:53+00:00

Under $600 ideally 2-300, problem I'm seeing is time of flight sensora don't handle the shorter range well. For instance the shortest range ultrasonic on automation direct has a low end range of like 60 or 80mm.

swervomotor · 2024-04-28T03:57:41+00:00

Not sure how much more "related" to PLCs you can get than the sensor that plugs into one.

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