Robotics in Manufacturing
SRVO-006

SRVO-006: Hand broken

The HBK (hand-broken) safety input tripped.

What it means

The HBK (hand-broken) safety input tripped. If the robot has a breakaway safety joint on the end-of-arm tooling, it may have actually broken away after a crash. If no safety joint is used, the HBK signal line itself is grounded or cut.

Common causes

Ranked by what technicians most often find, most likely first.

  1. The tooling's safety joint broke away - usually after contact with something.
  2. HBK signal wire in the robot connection cable grounded or disconnected.
  3. HBK input enabled in system config on a robot that has no safety joint wired.

How to fix it

  1. Hold SHIFT and press RESET to clear; while holding SHIFT, jog the robot to a position where the tooling can be safely inspected and serviced.
  2. Inspect the tooling and safety joint - replace or reseat it, and find out what it hit before restarting production.
  3. If no safety joint is used, disable the hand-broken input in SYSTEM > Config rather than leaving a floating safety input.
  4. Persistent alarms with good tooling point to the connection cable.

Quick facts

Category
Servo
Affected series
R-30iB; R-30iB Mate; R-30iB Plus; R-30iB Mate Plus
Alarm family
SRVO

Related codes

Verified against FANUC documentation (B-83284EN-1).Last reviewed: 2026-07-09.Editorial process