This is a bad week for ATC’s on our machines. First the FADAL ATC goes out and we spend almost two days tracing that down to bad wiring, now the Akira Seiki’s ATC is alarming and we are down again!(chair)
Our 1997 Akira Seiki turning center ASL-17 with a OT Fanuc control is alarming out with #1011 “Turret not ready”. It earlier did this without an alarm twice, it just stopped.
It unclamps rotates and seems to get lost. We e-stopped it to shut off the hydraulics and hand pushed the turret into the tool position twice to reset and once completely off worked. A few times we were able to get it to work again for two or three cycles before it alarms out, and once we were able ran around 300 cycles before alarming.
Now it’s not working at all. We suspect the turret count sensor. However, in pulling the sheet metal covers off it looks like there maybe two sensors one may be for checking the turret unclamp and the other tool position count. We do not have a repair manual so this is all guess work.
Anyone have any ideas?? We suspect one of the sensors but do not know how to test them (voltages in out ect.) Nor do we know how to check the alarms on the diagnostics ladder.
We could sure use some help.:drowning:
Steve