A pusher divert with its trigger eye 1.20 m upstream and a 2780 ms delay in the program was diverting 97% of the 600 mm cartons and 61% of the 300 mm totes, and every tote it missed was hit on its back corner and spun onto the takeaway sideways. The 2780 ms was right … Read more
Two cartons released 1.1 seconds apart from line A and line B arrive at a 30 degree merge at the same moment, because line A’s release eye is 1.3 m from the junction and line B’s is 1.7 m, and 0.4 m at 0.28 m/s is 1.4 seconds. The rung that let that happen was … Read more
On a 1.5 m zone pitch at 0.28 m/s, a 600 mm carton is invisible to both photo-eyes for 3.2 seconds of its journey between them. An upstream zone whose release permissive is nothing more than “the next eye is clear” will use that window to send a second carton, and the two of them … Read more
A 300 mm tote leaving zone 12 at 0.280 m/s onto a metering belt running 0.513 m/s arrives at the scanner 250 mm behind the tote that left in front of it, and a 600 mm carton on the same two belts arrives 499 mm behind its neighbour. Neither number has a timer in it: … Read more
Zone 5 is stopped, PE5 is clear, Zone[5].Expecting is 0, and there is a 600 mm carton standing 30 mm short of the beam that no zone on the line is driving. Zone 4 behind it has a carton on its eye, Owns clear, its hold timer done, and every permissive it needs to release … Read more
The E-stop is reset, the safety relay is closed, every one of the twelve PowerFlex 525s on the accumulation line has S1 and S2 at 24 V again and F059 cleared from its display, and nothing moves. No fault on any drive, no alarm on the HMI, twelve zones with a carton on every eye … Read more
The warehouse system’s report for the night shift said 4,629 cartons sorted, 100% to the lane the order wanted, and the lane 2 pallet had 19 cartons on it that belonged in lane 3 and a picker who found them at 06:40. The sorter had no way to know. Its scanner read the label, its … Read more
A 1024 PPR encoder on the tail roller of an 8 m belt, read in X4 by a 5069-HSC2xOB4, gives 652 counts for every 50 mm of belt, and a shift register that moves one cell every 652 counts knows where a carton is to within one cell whether the belt is running at 0.500 … Read more
We can very easily perform many operations such as creating an error routine with indirect addressing method in PLCs, recipe system, and methods of storing the data we have. What is indirect addressing, in a briefly understandable way; The process of selecting the elements of an array by an index number can be called indirect … Read more