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ABB IRC5 and Omnicore

octoplant supports the management of ABB IRC5 and Omnicore projects and enables the automatic creation of backups as well as the cyclic monitoring of the robots.

Info

In this tutorial, the term IRC5 is used for both IRC5 and IRC5P robot controllers.

Device Support Level

Figure: ABB IRC5 and Omnicore Device Support Level

Key features

Figure: ABB IRC5 and Omnicore Key features

Workflow

Figure: ABB IRC5 and Omnicore workflow

System requirements

From version RobotWare version
octoplant 101 5.x to 7.x

Other system requirements

If you want to use the ABB Robotics PC SDK connection type for IRC5 jobs, the following requirements apply:

  • Robot Communication Runtime must be licensed and installed on the server.
  • DotNet Framework 4.8 must be installed on the server.
  • The 616-1 RW-PC Interface option must be enabled on the robot.

The internal connection paths for the ABB Robotics PC SDK type depend on the firmware used.

  • RobotWare 5.x to 6.2 > FTP
  • RobotWare 6.03 and newer > Http
  • RobotWare 7.x and newer > Http (Https)