The customer's requirements were met with a plc-controlled
Twin Monorail System. Individual coining presses were
fed by custom-designed charge cars travelling on (2)
independent, parallel monorails. The charge cars were
filled at opposite ends of the monorails by Plencon
load hoppers that were constantly fed in turn by existing
feed conveyors.
The resulting system was able to automatically service
the presses on a first-in first-out basis in response
to signals for blanks. In addition, the system could
be operated in a Semi-Automatic mode to service a particular
press or by radio control in Manual mode for maintenance
purposes.
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