Robotics

Gain valuable knowledge and hands-on experience with NEW short-term training!

*The price for this class includes lunch.
**All classes in the Nierode Building, use West Campus Drive entrance.

Robotics - Operator (8 hours)

Production operators who work with Fanuc robots, or foresee a future working with Fanuc robots, will benefit from this class. Topics include robot safety, investigation and evaluation of differences in jogging modes, program initiation from a teach pendant, and program fault recovery. Lab activities include:

• Evaluating modes of jogging a robot, and best practices for given situations
• Program initiation from a Fanuc teach pendant
• Manually operating an end effector to remove product from end effector
• Robot program recovery from a fault

Instructor: Jason Scholten, LTC Electro-Mechanical Instructor

Robotics - Intro to Programming (16 hours)

Those who work closely with Fanuc robots will gain a better understanding of the program. Note: This is a prerequisite for Robotics – Programming 24 hours.

• Discussions focus on robot safety, tool frames, jog frames, user frames, saving & recovering Fanuc robot controller memory
• Lab experiences include creating tool frames using direct entry, 3 & 6 point methods, creating user and jog frames, & starting a program
• How to save & recover programs you’ve created

Instructor: Jim Gruenke, LTC Electro-Mechanical Program Coordinator/Instructor

Robotics - Robot Mechanical Maintenance (24 hours)

Focus on the Fanuc Ri-30b controller, though the concepts covered can be applied to several other series of Fanuc controllers. Industrial maintenance professionals who troubleshoot and repair Fanuc robots will go through: 

• Discussions on the function & relationship control components, as well as troubleshooting
• Lab experiences focusing on troubleshooting using fault codes, symptoms, file manipulation and backup, and re-mastering 
• An overview of Fanuc DCS safety software

Instructor: Jason Scholten, LTC Electro-Mechanical Instructor