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07/17/2012 04:28 PM
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Hello everyone,
I'm currently doing a thesis for a manufacturing company about implementing a Kanban systeem.
The shopfloor has 8 assembly lines, 4 of them has a robot depalletizer that unload the boxes with plastic bottles from the pallet. There is supply conveyer where the truckdriver can place 8 pallets on it. My question is, is there a way that the robot depalletizer can gives a signal to the truckdriver when he needs to place a new pallet on the supply conveyer? The manufacturing company works with barcoding system.
I hope my question is clear, because english is not my native language.
Thanks in advance
Kind regrards,
Gill
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07/18/2012 11:04 AM
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A relatively simple solution is to put a sensor at the low level point on the supply conveyor that looks for the presence of a pallet. When the sensor fails to see a pallet, you could have it turn on a light, sound an alarm, or whatever to signal the truck driver.
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07/20/2012 11:48 AM
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Another solution - assuming the robot depalletizer is working at a consistent rate - is to have the truck driver come to the line when the line is scheduled to be loaded, just showing up at a regular interval to resupply. This makes the dirver's work more standardized (is operator based rather than machine based).
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