Hi there,
we have an UR10e actual application not longer needed, now i plan to weld with it.
We have Fronius TPS/i Machines here, so i want to use one of these for Welding application with the UR also.
I am a little confused about the connection options.
Anyone with an TPS/i here who can tell about the experiences made?
Fronius Offers different options.
Profinet?
Modbus?
I/O?
what is used with the SmartArc UR+ Product?
Maybe in future we want to use it.
christian,
Your pretty much stuck with Modbus or I/O to communicate to the Fronius.
Profinet on the UR10e is only Slave (Most annoying) as is the Fronius so unless you have a PLC as master to both your stuck.
I’d personally go Modbus. It’s tidier and Modbus is very simple to setup. the other restriction is the small amount of I/O on the UR might give you some issues.
I’ve never done any welding with a UR but have setup Fronius on Fanuc Robots before.
Hope this helps
Hi M.Hammerton,
thank you for the fast reply so i order the Fieldbus interface with Modbus Module.
Hi guys, I’m kind of stuck here. We’ve a Fronius TPS connected to an UR10e, via ethernet/IP. But the signal map is not the same as fronius manual, do you happen to have an I/O list?
I figured out that register 65 turns the arc on (“write_output_boolean_register(65,True)”), but thats it.
The image below has the Fronius manual list
