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Robotics lab · Level 1 of 8

Safe start

Level 1 of 8 in the Robotics lab: a free robot programming exercise at Foundation level, which takes about 15 minutes. Prove the stops work, isolate and restore power, reset, and send the arm home. The sequence every shift starts with.

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Free · no download · about 15 minutes. Your work is saved on this device. Updated 18 Oct 2026.

3D view of the Safe start level in the Robotics lab
Safe start

The brief

Client
Tolland Foods
Site
Case packing cell 1
Work order
WO-RB-101
Task code
ROB-01
Difficulty
Foundation
Type of work
Safety

Prove the stops work, isolate and restore power, reset, and send the arm home. The sequence every shift starts with.

Skills you practise

  • E-stop test
  • Enabling device
  • Isolation and restore
  • Reset and home

What the test checks

The acceptance test marks the skills this level practises.

  • E-stop test
  • Enabling device
  • Isolation and restore
  • Reset and home

In this lab

  • Teach pendant: jog, teach and run
  • Safety: guards, enabling device, safe start
  • A handshake between robot and PLC

Levels in the Robotics lab

Next: Jog

  1. Safe start
  2. Jog
  3. Teach and run
  4. Pick and place
  5. Palletising
  6. Machine tending
  7. Safety validation
  8. Fault finding

Part of the Robotics lab

Teach a robot arm a pick and place job and prove its handshake with the PLC.

About the Robotics lab

Feeds these internships: PLC Programming, Commissioning and Maintenance.