Conveyor 22 presents an invention “Back-Track Tray” – to solve a common issue of returning details within automation applications.

The entire system consists of two conveyors, Up Line and Black Line 141 with two feeding trays, one delivering tray and one returning tray. The unique motion created by linear conveyor Black Line, together with the force of gravity, enables Back-Track Tray to transport the details backwards.

Firstly Delivery Tray moves the details forwards for the purposes of viewing, picking or placing in a fixed position. Then unpicked or defective parts are gently returned by Back-Track Tray to the magazine. Lastly Up Line returns the details to complete circulation.

A film presenting the operating principle: Back-Track Tray System for returning of parts

Conveyor 22 now launches a new linear conveyor for vertical transportation, electric driven and double action step feeder, Up Line. Double action describes the operating principle that every step moves up and down alternately, resulting in high capacity.

Up Line orients and raises components over short to medium heights easily and gently, which minimizes wear and tear on the material being handled. Output height setting is 190 mm adjustable with a crank. Magazine is customized depending on the sizes of transported details and low filling height is user-friendly. This flexible step feeder is a good option, the noise level is low and the size is compact. Up Line, with its built-in inductive sensor, is perfect for automatic feeding and presentation of parts for any assembly, inspection or secondary application.

With the combination of Up Line and Black & Clean Line, Conveyor 22 is ready to deliver a more complete conveying system and fulfill more customers needs.

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In the Scanautomatic fair 2016, ABB and Conveyor 22 together present an easy and cost-effective solution for collaborative robotic application.

Conveyor 22 designed this robot cell for ABB, intended to present an application possibility for their industrial robot YuMi to mount mechanical components. We display a visualized platform that imitates a complete assembly line around YuMi and shows its capability to perform a quality job. In the robot cell YuMi interacts with our linear conveyors in a compact and flexible way of transporting, separating, organizing, storing, picking, assembling and sorting.

YuMi assembles two components. Left feeding tray organizes the screws and ends with sensor and storing slit, which enables YuMi’s left hand to pick from a fixed position. Right feeding tray is designed to turn and separate the nuts, which allows YuMi’s right hand to identify them through the gripper’s vision camera before picking. Assembled details and extra unpicked parts are left into the middle feeding tray, which is made of different layers and tracks in order to recycle all details. The conveying system circulate all components by using different feeding trays, three horizontal conveyors Black Line 141 and two vertical conveyors Up Line jointly controlled by the robot’s control system.

We are glad that this robot cell has received great attention from the visitors and it will also be exhibited in Annual Suppliers’ Forum SLD2016, together with ABB. Scanautomatic 2016 gave us many new business contacts, both national and international. We would like to specially thank ABB for their pioneering leadership through cooperating with Conveyor 22, as well as new and old customers for your continuous interest in our conveyors.

Greetings: Anne-Maj, Lars and Muzi, Conveyor 22

Watch the video: Robot YuMi assembles screws and nuts in Scanautomatic 2016

In the Elima Automation fair, Concept AB is presenting the new visionfeeder with two Black Line 141 transporters built into the system. The new versionfeeder combines several different conveyors, two vision cameras and a small robot, and is intented to serve a large robot cell. This system is develped as a standard module in Concept portfoilo.

Our electric linear conveyor provides solution for this system, as it can transport the materials in same speed regardless of weight differences without frequency adjustment. This feature provides a unique possibility for robotic automation applications.

Watch the video: Vision Feeder