Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Patent Literature 1 discloses an offline teachi ng device that displays, in a model diagram, an operation trajectory of a robot when a teaching program is executed and displays a part of a plurality of positi on detection commands and a part of a plurality of welding commands. The offline teaching device includes a display unit that displays the teaching program and the model diagram, a storage unit that stores commands constituting the teaching program and model data of the model diagram, and a control unit that controls t he display unit and the storage unit. The teaching program includes a position d etection program including the plurality of position detection commands and a we lding program including the plurality of welding commands. Here, the commands co nstituting the teaching program, the position detection program, and the welding program are each created by an operator.”