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ABB industrial robots are widely used in various industrial fields and can replace manual labor in performing high-intensity production tasks such as palletizing, welding, stamping, spraying, assembly, and sorting, effectively improving work efficiency and quality safety. For example, in palletizing work, traditional factories require manual handling onto pallets, which is labor-intensive and inefficient; while handling by robots can significantly increase the quantity, weight, and speed of handling, making it more suitable for the efficient and fast-paced modern production model.

Industrial intelligent gateways can connect to industrial robots from ABB, FANUC, ESTUN, Yaskawa, Hyundai, Yamaha, KUKA, and other brands, collecting in real time equipment status, emergency stop, alarms, working mode, angular coordinates, user coordinates, world coordinates, program running status, main program name, operation time, program line number, alarm information, IO signals, etc., and connect to the MES system through 5G/4G/WIFI/Ethernet and other methods, providing comprehensive and reliable data support for production management.

Functional Features

The gateway has abundant communication interfaces, including serial ports, network ports, and IO interfaces, which can meet the access requirements of various devices such as PLCs, instruments and meters, sensors, CNC machine tools, and industrial robots. It also supports multiple mainstream industrial protocols to ensure compatibility.

To achieve communication in different network environments, the gateway can achieve fast and efficient network coverage through 5G, 4G, WIFI, or Ethernet and other internet access methods. In addition, it has comprehensive link monitoring functions and fault self-recovery mechanisms to ensure continuous and stable network operation.

The gateway integrates multiple edge computing functions, such as intelligent data acquisition, data preprocessing, alarm logic judgment, jump event triggering, formula calculation, and group management strategies. These functions help reduce the burden on the cloud service center while improving the robustness and high-concurrency processing capability of the system.

In response to the high requirements of industrial environments, the gateway has built-in multiple software and hardware watchdog mechanisms to ensure highly reliable application even under harsh conditions. It provides functions such as watchdog monitoring, automatic recovery after network interruption, breakpoint resume, and function protection.

To facilitate the use of MES or ERP vendors, the gateway provides abundant API interface resources. Through the API interfaces provided by the WideIOT open platform, users can easily implement remote data collection, bidirectional control, and management of on-site devices.