Box feeder that moves two boxes at a time

General Questions
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I want to create a combination with a molding machine > Robot > Conveyor#1 > Conveyor#2

Conveyor #1 gets parts from the molding machine
Conveyor #2 is perpendicular to Conveyor #1 and contains Boxes where the parts from the molding machine fall into.

At the moment I placed a Conveyor Sensor to Conveyor #1 to count the parts and trigger a “BatchReadySignal” once the defined amount of components have fallen into the box.

On Conveyor #2 I have another Conveyor Sensor set up to stop the box under the first conveyor.
To restart the conveyor once the “BatchReadySignal” is HIGH it is connected to the Conveyor “PowerOnSignal”

This setup kind of works but my actual molding machine is delivering two parts at the same time. Two mirror components of each other that need to land into two different boxes.
Therefor I need to have:

  • Two empty boxes at the input side of the conveyor
  • Two boxes that are being filled up in the middle of the conveyor
  • Two boxes at the output side of the conveyor that have been filled up and are waiting to be picked up.

How can I create this conveyor that waits for two empty boxes to be present, checks that the output two boxes have been taken away, starts and stops after moving two boxes up to a sensor?

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Hi,

Wouldn’t it be better to create this model with flow components (from and to conveyor processes) instead of sensors?

Use the processes to create your own logic.

This could (if I understood correctly) look like this:

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*So at first you create a second part with Moulding machine with “Create ProductOut2”
I guess you need new Frame locations for both of the parts.
*Attach this ProductOut2 to ProductOut
*Then at the end of the conveyor you have a process that Transports the combined parts in and Detatch them back into two individual parts and transports them both out into two different process nodes.

  • Each of the Process nodes Transports in a Box and a Pattern of parts… I don’t know what the Assing ProductIn = is for.

I have to try this approach to understand it better. Thank you for replying!