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Balluff
Pick & Place Conveyor
 

Description
Automated pick and place conveyor system that can have seven different thickness shapes. The material is steel with the same diameter on the bottom of each unit. There are twelve stations on the machine for location automation.

Objective
The conveyor must stop at two pre-determined conveyor locations and verify part presence.
Location # 1 - part must be located and machined
Location # 2 - Part must be detected for proper robot pick-up and unload section.

Solution
Use of the right angle split beam fiber optic cable mounted across the conveyor with 100mm between cable ends to detect 40mm diameter. Parts in location #1 and #2 are connected to N/O diffuse type opto switch that is mounted down and out of conveyor area.

Balluff Product Used:
12 BFO-18A-LEE-UZG-20-1.0
12 BOS-18M-PS-1-PD-E5-CS40.2
12 BKS-S19-1/3