Teach Pendant

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Adhering to good practices will make programming the robots quicker, diagnostics easier, and allow others to understand your programs better.

Variations

Over the years FANUC has upgraded the teach pendant with newer technology to make it more user-friendly. Adding larger, sharper color displays, overlaying with touchy screens, and generating a sleek UI are some of the changes made in the past 20 years.

However, they have kept the UI relatively uniform in its structure, as well as the input keys on the teach pendant front. This is desirable as an operator trained on one generation of robots will have little trouble adapting to the newer generation designs.

Usage

Turning the teach pendant on gives the holder sole control of the robot. This is important as external control could be risky when teaching a robot.

The teach pendant is our primary tool for creating, modifying, and testing teach pendant programs. It includes an LCD display, membrane keypad, enable switch, a DeadMan Switch, and an Emergency Stop button.

The FANUC teach pendant is designed for either left or right handed operation. The strap is typically placed on your non-dominate hand, leaving your dominate hand to hit most buttons and navigation keys. The strapped hand is used for the DeadMan switch and often the SHIFT key.

The teach pendant is corded to the robot's main controller.

Navigation

Below is the structure for the primary menus and screens on the Teach Pendant.

Teach Pendant Physical Buttons

Physical Buttons

On the right of this page is an image of the teach pendant buttons. Each button is clickable and will take you to the section or dedicated page detailing the button's purpose and use. The buttons are also listed below, linking to any respective pages.

MENU

The Menu button opens an on screen nesting menu allowing you to reach nearly all screens available on the teach pendant.

SELECT

The select button opens a list of existing programs. From this screen you can create a new program as well.

EDIT

Edit takes you to the last open program. Use this key whenever you need to get back to your program.

DATA

Data opens up the screen for viewing and editing data registers.

FUNCTION

Function is a menu of options relating to the teach pendant and controller states.

• ABORT (ALL) - This command tells the controller to end all programs, allowing you to begin another or analyze data from that time.
• Disable FWD/BWD
• RELEASE WAIT
• QUICK/FULL MENUS
• SAVE
• PRINT SCREEN
• PRINT
• UNSIM ALL I/O
• START MODE
  • CANCEL
  • COLD
  • CTRL
• ENABLE HMI MENU
• REFRESH PANE
• LIVE/SNAP
• VISION SETUP
• Diagnostic log
• Del Diag Log
  

POSN

[TYPE]

JNT

USER

WORLD

I/O

• [TYPE]
  • Cell Intface
  • Custom
  • Digital
  • Analog
  • Group
  • Robot
  • UOP
  • SOP
  • Interconnect
  • Link Device
  • Flag
• CONFIG
  • Output type/no:
• IN/OUT
• SIM
  • ON
  • OFF
• UNSIM

DISP

• Single
• Double
• Triple
• TreeView
• Single Wide
• Double Horizontal
• Triple Horizontal
• Help/Diagnostics
  • Help
  • Context Help
  • Diagnostics
  • Diagnostics Home
  • Menu Help
• Status/Single
• Menu History
• User Views
  • Zoom
  • Maximize, Restore
• Menu Favorites
• Related Views
• Maximize/Restore
• Zoom

STATUS

• [TYPE]
  • Axis
  • Version ID
  • Stop Signal
  • Exec-hist
  • Memory
  • Prg Timer
  • Sys Timer
  • Condition
  • Program
  • Notifications
• STATUS1
• STATUS2
• PULSE
• [UTIL]
  • Group
  • Clear
• MONITOR
• TRACKING
• DISTURB
• DIAG.

SET UP

1. Program select mode:
   • RSR
   • PNS
   • STYLE
   • OTHER
2. Production start method: Production Checks:
   • UOP
   • OTHER
3. At home check:
   1. DISABLED
   2. ENABLED
4. Resume position toler.:
   1. DISABLED
   2. ENABLED
5. Simulated I/O:
   1. DISABLED
   2. ENABLED
6. General override <100%:
   1. DISABLED
   2. ENABLED
7. Prog override <100%:
   1. DISABLED
   2. ENABLED
8. Machine lock:
   1. DISABLED
   2. ENABLED
9. Single step:
   1. DISABLED
   2. ENABLED
10. Process ready: General controls:
11. Heartbeat timing:
    1. 1000 MS
12. Low TEMP DRAM memory:
    1. 100 KB
13. Low PERM CMOS memory:
    1. 50 KB

STEP

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