An industrial robot on its own is just an arm. It earns its place on a line when it is integrated: reading sensors, driving solenoids, handshaking with a PLC, and holding a cycle time the rest of the cell can live with. This course teaches that integration work.
You will program, interface, and optimize industrial robot systems in an Industry 4.0 environment for pick-and-place, basic assembly, machine loading and unloading, and gluing applications. You will interpret existing robot programs, develop a sequence of operations, and write the program for an application; enter programs and points with a teach pendant, wire on/off input sensors and solenoid output devices to the robot's digital I/O, interface that I/O to a PLC, and tune the result for cycle time. Program commands covered include three types of motion, speed, offset, data register, branching, digital I/O, looping, waiting, and macros.
This course prepares you to test for the Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA) C-216 Robot Systems Integration 1 certification.