Handling for moulding machine

The equipment interfaces with robots for a fully automated production cell incorporating photo electric cells through beam sensors for product detection to stop/start each conveyor, complete with variable speed control and audible/visual alarms to cater for product being discharged and transferred some 9.5m to a convenient operator height.

Extensive trials were conducted to ensure the correct type of belt was used to eliminate any possibility of product damage. Due to the compact production area available for the new machines it was imperative that the conveyor cells fitted perfectly so UPM employed 3D mechanical solid modelling design software to create 3D digital prototypes. Using design visualisation and simulation, this allows the image to be rotated through 360˚, eliminating any risk of the system not interfacing with existing equipment.