Design; The Joining Station - Festo MPS 400 Serie Instrucciones De Utilizacion

Joining station – Operating instructions

9 Design

9.1 The Joining station

The Joining station consists of a separating station with an added Pick&Place module and bus node. The
Pick&Place module is equipped with a suction cup for joining the workpiece caps and the MPS workpiece
bases.
The station can remove workpiece bases from, or place them into, the flow of materials.
The workpiece base is held in the joining position at the deflector.
Thanks to the bus node expansions, the Pick&Place module can be used with various bus protocols
depending on the controller.
The function of the joining station is to:
•
Remove workpieces from the flow of materials
•
Place workpieces into the flow of materials
•
Mount workpiece caps on the MPS workpiece bases
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