Is it possible to change the start/stop parameter of the outgoing conveyor to the sensor I/O name?
What is happening is that when the PickMaster cell feeds the conveyor after it, too quickly, the products then back up. What I would like to do is have a sensor that tells PickMaster when the conveyor is full and that would then pause the PickMaster system.
The problem is that some downstream equipment after the robot cell is backing up and the outfeed conveyor must then be stopped, so that the downstream equipment can catch up. Assuming that the downstream equipment is indicating if it is catching up or not through a digital input signal, the following must be performed.
In the PickMaster line, change the conveyor start/stop signal from doStartCnvX to doSimStartCnvX (a simulated output signal).
Configure a cross connection in the S4C+ from doSimStartCnvX AND di1_1 (or where ever the sensor is connected to) to the output doStartCnvX signal.
doSimStartCnvX & di1_1 → doStartCnvX
The result is that the conveyor is only going to move if both the I/O is not indicating that the downstream equipment is not catching up and that PickMaster wants to move it.
How to perform cross connections in the S4C+, please refer to chapter 6.8 (Baseware User’s Guide 4.0.80).