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For Yaskawa® Motoman® controllers

Edit CIO by drag-and-drop. Ship the files the controller already loads.

Stop rebuilding Concurrent I/O on the pendant. Drag contacts, coils and I/O names onto the rung, run Check, then write CIOPRG.LST and IONAME.DAT — the files the robot already loads. CIOBench keeps a Relay Label File for the names and comments the controller never stored.

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See the edit before you commit it to the cell

Every drop draws a ghost and a caption — Insert after, Add branch, Replace output with OUT, Assign #00012 — so the rung you get is the rung you saw. PART 1 stays locked. Check runs the family’s rules. History keeps every pull. The files you save are the files the controller loads.

  • Drag, don’t retype — contacts, coils and names land where you point
  • Cell-true files — CIOPRG.LST and IONAME.DAT for the robot; Relay Label File for CIOBench
  • Floor-safe — Check before USB, PART 1 locked, SHA-256 history

Key feature

Drag-and-drop ladder editing

Contacts, coils and I/O names drag onto the rung. Ghost previews and captions show the edit before you commit.

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Exact files

One cell per robot, not a loose LST on the desktop

A cell is one robot: working folder, last HSES host, and a SHA-256 snapshot trail from pull, save, USB and manual notes. Monitor bits and downloads belong to that cell only. Weld Cell 3 here is a DX100 at 172.16.82.199.

Start with a cell

Controller-true ladder

User and system tabs, with PART 1 locked

The mnemonic listing follows the tab and is the text that will be written to CIOPRG.LST. Check runs the family’s instruction rules. The system ladder stays readable, searchable and printable — and locked until you unlock it on purpose.

Edit the ladder

Names that survive USB

DAT where DAT can hold it. NAM for the rest

GP IN/OUT names live in IONAME.DAT (what the controller stores). Everything else is CIOBench’s Relay Label File — short name plus comment for the rest of the map. The editor will not let you type a DAT name the file cannot store.

I/O name editor

System ladder — visible, searchable, printable. Not silently writable.

The cost of working without a CIO bench

Loose LST copies and pendant edits burn shift time and hide what changed. CIOBench keeps the ladder, the names and the history on one robot — so the next pull is a comparison, not a guess.

Without CIOBench

  • Loose CIOPRG.LST copies on the desktop — which one is live?
  • Mnemonics typed by hand, verified on the pendant under pressure
  • Names only where someone remembered the NAM
  • No record of what the last pull looked like
  • System ladder (PART 1) edited by accident

With CIOBench

  • One cell, one working folder, one HSES host
  • Drag-and-drop ladder with a ghost preview of every edit
  • IONAME.DAT for GP names the controller stores; Relay Label File for the rest in CIOBench
  • Semantic diff against the last pull — restore a rung or the whole CIO
  • PART 1 locked until you unlock it on purpose

From empty bench to a living cell

Four steps from a blank cell to files you can put on USB. The pictures on this page are Weld Cell 3 — a DX100 pulled over HSES.

  1. 01

    Name the robot, not the IP

    Display name, DX100 / DX200 / YRC family, optional host. The database keys history on the cell, not the address.

  2. 02

    Download CIOPRG + IONAME

    Tools → Robot File Manager... Connect, download into the cell’s working folder, and the application NAM comes along when the CIO header names it.

  3. 03

    Every pull is a snapshot

    History opens on the pull. Working is always the compare-from. Restore a rung, the names, or the whole CIO.

  4. 04

    Edit by dragging, check, save to USB

    Drop parts and names onto rungs, run Check, then File → Save to USB... writes the smallest set of files the controller will load.

HSES files

UDP 10041. Download CIOPRG.LST and IONAME.DAT — or any selected file — into the cell’s working folder.

Live monitor

UDP 10040. ON contacts highlight; coils the contacts demand are written; Ctrl+click forces an input.

Check

Family instruction rules, blank operands, bad ranges. Errors block Save to USB...; double-click a row to jump.

Instruction reference

F1 opens the selected mnemonic. Search by signal name or #relay. Text follows RE-CKI-A467.

Built for the controllers already on your floor

Compatible with DX100, DX200, YRC1000, YRC1000micro and YRC1100micro. The palette, Check and the instruction reference follow the family of the open cell. A DX200 cell that receives a /CIOPRG DX file becomes DX100 in the status line and the Cells list.

Family

DX100

MOV, ADD, SUB, PLF, GSTR/GOUT — no BMOV in the palette or in Check. Weld Cell 3 on this page.

Family

DX200

Adds BMOV block move. Same CIOPRG.LST / IONAME.DAT pair, same HSES ports.

Family

YRC1000 · YRC1000micro · YRC1100micro

Full instruction set with BMOV. Reference text follows RE-CKI-A467.

10040 / 10041HSES robot control and file control ports
SHA-256Every snapshot in the cell history
2 + labelsCIOPRG.LST · IONAME.DAT · CIOBench Relay Label File

Learn the bench before the next cell call

Drag · drop

Drag-and-drop editing

Series, branch, output, name assignment and new rungs — every zone and caption.

 Cells

Start and cells

Create, open and delete a cell. What the amber dirty dot means.

 10041

Pull from the robot

File manager, working folder, and the family token on the CIO marker.

 10040

Live monitor

Connect, force an input, read the ON count in the status bar.

 F1

Instruction reference

Search by mnemonic, signal name or relay number.

 Ctrl+P

Print

Ladder, mnemonics, names, cross reference, alarms — landscape or portrait.