The Distributing Pro Station - Festo MPS 404-1 Notice D'utilisation

404-1 System, Distributing Pro-Joining-Measuring Pro-Sorting Inline – Operating instructions

9.2 The Distributing Pro station

For MPS system 404-1, the Distributing Pro station is equipped with three Stacking magazine modules and a
700 mm Conveyor module.
It also includes IO-Link sensors for detecting the level in the magazines, pushbuttons for deactivating the
individual stacking magazines, and an RFID module.
After the workpiece base has been pushed out of the stacking magazine module, the RFID read/write head
writes the work order number, the position number and the functions to the RFID tag in the workpiece base.
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The Distributing Pro station is a feeder unit.
Feeder units fulfil the function of holding, sorting
and feeding workpieces.
In addition, feeder units also enable workpieces to
be sorted according to several characteristics
(workpiece shape, weight etc.).
Feeder units include:
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Magazines with separator function
•
Vibratory hopper conveyors
•
Inclined conveyors
•
Hoppers with feed separators
Workpieces which can be handled by feeder units
include:
• Electroplated parts
•
Molded plastic parts
•
Punched parts and turned parts
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