D1: Diagnostics tools
5.2 Description of diagnostic tools
Basic Functions
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5.2
Description of diagnostic tools
Scope
The Function Manual deals with displays of the user interface, system functions, procedures for determining
system statuses and, if necessary, measures for avoiding undesirable conditions for the NC control, PLC and
drives.
General
Alarm and signal status displays
The currently active or not yet acknowledged alarms and messages are displayed in the "Diagnostics" operating
area.
Alarm log
The alarm log contains the alarms that have occurred and the time.
For a detailed explanation of the alarms that may occur see:
References:
Diagnostics Manual
Alarm handler
Application
The alarm handler provides an infrastructure for activating and managing alarms on the NCK.
Functions
• Buffering of a maximum of 16 alarms that have been activated since system powerup and which have not yet
been reset.
• Alarm reactions can be programmed as channelspecific, modegroupspecific or NCKspecific reactions.
• The "NoReady" alarm reaction can also be programmed as a channelspecific reaction.
Activation
The alarm handler is activated when an error status is detected in the NCK, causing an alarm to be output.
It is possible to trigger an alarm in a part program using the
SETAL
language command.
References:
Programming Manual, Job Planning
Note
For alarms and messages that the machine tool OEM issues, the corresponding descriptions
should be taken from the documentation of the machine tool OEM.
Note
The currently active alarms in the NCK are read via the operator panel interface.
It is not possible to set alarms externally in the NCK.