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Getting Started with Festo MecLab
Lesson Planning
Changing or modifying the stations
This is done by either adding components or by modifying programs. For example:
• Empty magazine warning on the stack magazine station.
− Use a through-beam sensor to monitor parts in the magazine.
• Continuously pushing out new work pieces until the magazine is empty.
− Fill level monitoring using a through-beam sensor
• Warning of incorrectly inserted parts in the stack magazine station.
− Monitor using an inductive sensor (only for metal work pieces).
• Conveyor with buffer function (stopping a part for x seconds).
− Attachment of the deflector to the opposite side of the conveyor.
• Extending the conveyor to include a stamping function.
− Attach the stamping unit to the conveyor.
• Y-axis of the handling station stops half way through its stroke.
− Take the proximity sensor from the stack magazine and position it on the mid point
of the handling station’s “Y” axis. Use a 3/2-way directional control valve.
Remember that when making these “conversions” an appropriate program must be created
for each solution.
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