Robotics Maintenance Mastery

A complete course in industrial robot maintenance: safety and lockout for robotic cells, controllers, servo drives and motors, mechanics, end-of-arm tooling, programming for maintenance, networking, preventive maintenance and troubleshooting.

Who it is for

Maintenance technicians who support robotic cells, and electricians or mechanics moving into robot maintenance.

What you will learn

• Robot safety systems and lockout/tagout for robotic cells
• Controllers, power distribution, servo drives, servo motors, encoders and resolvers
• Gear reducers and harmonic drives, bearings and lubrication, cable dress packs, balancers and brakes
• End-of-arm tooling: grippers, welding end effectors, vision-guided tooling and TCP setup
• Teach pendants, reading robot programs, backup and restore, mastering and zero-point calibration, I/O troubleshooting
• Industrial networks, fieldbus troubleshooting and PLC-to-robot communication
• Preventive maintenance schedules, vibration analysis, thermal imaging and accuracy testing
• Alarm codes and fault diagnosis, collision recovery, and platform chapters for FANUC, ABB, KUKA, Yaskawa Motoman and Universal Robots

How the course works

• Knowledge Check quizzes throughout the text
• Platform chapters you can study for the robots in your own plant
• Read online on any device, with your place and answers saved to your account

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