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Getting Started with Festo MecLab
Conveyor Station
Conveyors are technical systems that are used in industry for the production (mainly trans-
port) of material.
Conveyors are used in everyday life. Supermarkets use conveyors for groceries at cash reg-
isters and department stores use conveyors in the form of escalators for the convenience of
their customers. In airports “moving walkways” help passengers move faster between ever
expanding terminals.
Conveyors helped revolutionize industrial production. Henry Ford, in 1913, pioneered an en-
tirely new method of production with the development of the assembly line and its use in
automobile production.
The technology of the assembly line has long since been transformed to become what it is to-
day. These days computer-controlled systems have taking over the heavy manual labor role
of production lines.
The Conveyor station poses challenging electromechanical lessons because of it’s flexibility
in applications.
Figure 5.1: Conveyor station
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