Doug Overkill
Plastic
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2015
We have a 1994 Chiron FZ-28L with a 40 tool carousel and a Fanuc 0Mc control. It's a German built machine my company had shipped over 18+ years ago, so the documentation is a little lacking.
Our issue all started 3 days ago after a fail during a tool change which occasionally happens. One of the many air cylinders involved in the tool change does not register that it completed a move and then the tool change times out. During the manual process of completing the tool change a M57 (delete spindle tool) was commanded (by accident). Now the machine does not know what tool is in the spindle. How do I set this?
After I walk all the steps through the unfinished tool change so it is ready to use. I then command a M06 T02 in MDI mode. It will go and pull tool 2 from the carousel and put it in the spindle. The tool coming out of the spindle never gets put back in the carousel. The carousel just goes around and around and never stops at the correct spot to put away that tool. I have stopped this process and manually completed the putting away of that tool into the carousel. And since I just had the machine put tool 2 into the spindle I hoped it would know that. It does not. When I command another tool change M06 T03, the machine pulls t03 out of the carousel and places it in the spindle. It then doesn't put t02 away. So either it can't remember the carousel spots, which is weird because it does go to the right spot when pulling tools out, or it can't remember the tool in the spindle which is what I think is going on.
Anyone have any ideas? I hope someone knows what parameter to set on this control to set the Tool number.
Our issue all started 3 days ago after a fail during a tool change which occasionally happens. One of the many air cylinders involved in the tool change does not register that it completed a move and then the tool change times out. During the manual process of completing the tool change a M57 (delete spindle tool) was commanded (by accident). Now the machine does not know what tool is in the spindle. How do I set this?
After I walk all the steps through the unfinished tool change so it is ready to use. I then command a M06 T02 in MDI mode. It will go and pull tool 2 from the carousel and put it in the spindle. The tool coming out of the spindle never gets put back in the carousel. The carousel just goes around and around and never stops at the correct spot to put away that tool. I have stopped this process and manually completed the putting away of that tool into the carousel. And since I just had the machine put tool 2 into the spindle I hoped it would know that. It does not. When I command another tool change M06 T03, the machine pulls t03 out of the carousel and places it in the spindle. It then doesn't put t02 away. So either it can't remember the carousel spots, which is weird because it does go to the right spot when pulling tools out, or it can't remember the tool in the spindle which is what I think is going on.
Anyone have any ideas? I hope someone knows what parameter to set on this control to set the Tool number.