Overview

Task

The CNC provides the user with 2 types of status information:

  1. Status information and status signals of an informative nature provided to the user by means of display data or by the HMI or the PLC.
  2. Status information on improved techniques to master machining technologies.

Characteristics

Real-time status signals consist of information from the real-time area of the CNC. The status information provided by the path interpolator is described below.

This mainly consists of information regarding CNC operation modes such as:

This information is useful for diagnosis purposes. The PLC can control or influence the internal status process by the logical linking of status signals.

The CNC also provides status information to improve mastery of specific machining technologies with the support of the PLC.

The information signals described are located in the HLI interface.

Programming

Status information on the HLI with the structure StateBahn is created and is invokable in the PLC programming language Structured Text on the path pMC[ChannelIdx]^.addr^.StateBahn_Data…

Mandatory note on references to other documents

For the sake of clarity, links to other documents and parameters are abbreviated, e.g. [PROG] for the Programming Manual or P-AXIS-00001 for an axis parameter.

For technical reasons, these links only function in the Online Help (HTML5, CHM) but not in pdf files since pdfs do not support cross-linking.