July 2013 8.7 Pallet management 1491
Field names The following types of fields are used in the pallet table:
Mandatory fields: Values must be entered.
Optional fields: Values can be entered. They have a fixed, predefined
meaning for the NC.
Freely definable fields: You can display additional fields. The names and
meaning are defined as desired. The entries are for information, or you can
interrogate and change them through the PLC.
Name Type of
machining
Meaning
PAL/PGM Workpiece-
oriented/tool-
oriented
Mandatory field:
Definition of the entry
PAL = Pallet
PGM = NC program
FIX = Fixture (only tool-oriented)
W-STATUS Tool-oriented Optional field:
Machining status
BLANK = Workpiece blank
ENDED = Machining complete
INCOMPLETE = Machining not complete
METHOD Tool-oriented Mandatory field:
Type of machining
TO = Tool-oriented
WPO = Workpiece-oriented
CTO = Tool-oriented for several entries
NAME Workpiece-
oriented/tool-
oriented
Mandatory field:
Name of the pallet or the NC program.
NC program names without paths are searched for in the
directory with the pallet file.
Permit only decimal numbers, so that you can interrogate the
pallet's name in the change macro with FN18: SYSREAD.
DATUM Workpiece-
oriented/tool-
oriented
Optional field:
Name of the datum table.
Datum tables without paths are searched for in the directory
with the pallet tables.
X, Y, Z, U, V,
W, A, B, C
Workpiece-
oriented/tool-
oriented
Optional fields:
Definition of the datum
a
In standard format only the columns X, Y and Z are used.
PRESET Workpiece-
oriented/tool-
oriented
Optional field:
Definition of the preset by entering a number from the preset
table
a
SP-X, SP-Y,
SP-Z
Tool-oriented Optional fields:
Safe positions; with FN18: SYSREAD, these positions can be
read in NC macros.
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