Switching between QL and ATC [PickMaster 3]

PickMaster
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Hi,

We have a simple line with 2 IRB360, 1 camera, 1 pick conveyor (beld) and 1 shift conveyor running in the same direction. Each robot must fill 50% of the box (there are 2 size of box 100prod and 200prod - no ATC used on the place) at a speed of 100 prod/min. When starting the line we let the index conveyor moving till a box is present at robot 1. If we start the line we will have 50% overflow because of the loadbalancing. My idea was in this case to start at half product flow and instead of LB use ATC until the first box is comming at the second robot.

Has someone any idea how to do this?

Thanks in advance,
BR,
Fabrice

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If Load Balancing is active, and you select to automatically re-balance between active and inactive robots, you could pause the second robot until the place area is half full. Then, when the robot starts running again, “normal” load balancing would be active again.

I don’t think the transition would be perfect, but you could probably reduce the initial overflow from 50% to 5%.

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OK thanks this is a good idea.

I will try this.