Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 11 21:41:51 EDT 2006 | fordf1502004
I am looking for some help and/or guidance. Our company is currently using a panasonic MPAG3 fine pitch machine, we just recently bought a universal conveyor for the downline operation, when I plug the smema cable from the panasonic into the universa
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 09:50:33 EDT 2006 | nitro
The conveyor program in the Allen Bradley PLC may be bad. I think it is a Micrologic 2000. You may have to re-program it using a hand held unit. Can't halp You with the Pana. I'm a Universal kind of guy.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 17:17:04 EDT 2006 | fordf1502004
I want to thank you for your help. after further investigation into the panasonic machine one our technicians was able to fix the issue. The panasonic machine uses a 5 volt signal and normal smema uses a 24 volt signal. To make these 2 machine talk t
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 18 15:43:33 EDT 2002 | dougt
Someone that makes conveyors just called me to argue about a smema problem we had with his conveyor and our machine. He caught me off guard and I wasn't the person that handled the problem so I stumbled through this initial conversation. Now that I
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 18 16:56:55 EDT 2002 | stockley
I started writing a long winded explanation about SMEMA and realised that it is just as easy to write about this as it is to talk about it on the phone. It just so happens that I have recently gone through this process so I believe that your vendor
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 18 18:40:05 EDT 2002 | dougt
Here is how smema works: Machine A has a board to give to machine B. Machine A has an opto or a relay that will turn on or close when it is ready to pass this board to machine B. This is the "board available from previous" signal, telling machine B
Electronics Forum | Sun Oct 16 04:23:20 EDT 2005 | olas
I have a couple of questions about the SMEMA conveyor (standard 1.2); I posted the question to them but had no answer. SMEMA says: 5) Maximum gap. The maximum gap between the in-line machine track ends is 0.375� I would suppose this gap refers to th
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 21 03:39:41 EDT 2005 | fastek
Exactly. Poor Olas is pulling his hair out over an issue that has no business being "standardized". The SMEMA guys with apparently way too much time on their hands couldn't simply stop at the communications protocol and leave it at that....they had t
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 20 23:19:09 EDT 2005 | Cmiller
You should not be worried about these points in the SMEMA standard. You need to make it work for your application. If you are running really small boards, keep the gap between conveyors and the lead-in as tight as you can. If you are using large pane
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 04 20:25:47 EST 2005 | mika
Always happy to share information. Perhaps other viewers on this thread, can get some ideas of "how to". /Sincerely Ps. There is a so called "standard height" which the conveours/machines from different manufactories must be able to reach; without r
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