Good afternoon (or morning, whereever you may be).
I recently acquired a couple of Okuma LNC8 machines. These mahcines are auotmatically loaded with a fanuc robot. The basic sequence of operations is as follows:
(part is machined)
M19 to orient
M91 to open door
At this point the robot goes in, unloads finished part, loads unfinished part and exits the machine
M2
The issue I am having is with the cycle time. I have to 'cycle start' twice in order to reset the program and run the next cycle. The robot looks for the first cycle start when it is clear of the machine, and the second cycle start when in it's home position. I want to be able only have one 'cycle start' command to reset the program and start the next cycle. I have no idea if this is possible.
Thanks, and I apologize if this doesn't make sense, I'm fairly new to some of this stuff.