Adaptek's Exclusive Modular System Platforms
Modular Station Ring Dial Transfer, Modular Linear Palletized Transfer, Modular Automation Process Stations
To meet the strong industry demand for modular and cost effective automated part transfer platforms, the Adaptek Systems Team has developed two exclusive transfer systems to enhance the return on your automation investment.
The key focus in the development of the Adaptek Systems modular transfers is the ability to reduce total system integration time, simplicity of design and the ease of future reconfiguration and reuse of the system as needed. These concepts make your system’s platform more adaptable to retooling for future needs with a significant savings in time and money as your production requirements change. In conjunction with the system part transfer platform, the standardized automated process station configurations are also significantly more flexible in modular design function and can be easily tooled for a wide variety of automated process operations.
Modulator Station Ring Dial Transfer (MRT)
The MRT platform offers several unique capabilities in flexibility, ease of retooling for future product changes and significantly easier process observation and maintenance. The MRT is a totally modular station platform, available in 8 or 12 positions to advance parts in a rotary and precision synchronous motion. Functioning in theory similar to a conventional rotary indexing dial, the MRT provides substantial advantages over dial tables but still offers the lowest cost method for part transfers.
Fundamentally, the MRT utilizes rotary motion in the form of an “open ring” versus a solid plate indexing dial. This unique advantage offers the option to position automated process stations on the inner open area of the ring facing outward for substantially better access and processing observations. In addition, the platform also allows for additional stations to be mounted on the outer ring station positions if needed, potentially expanding the capabilities even further.The MRT is powered with a precision programmable servo drive motor and cam locking features for a smooth advance cycle and a highly precise lock and locate mechanism. The drive assembly is also modular to allow for easy system design reconfiguration, simple repairs and minimal down time eliminating major teardowns.
The MRT is available in a 12 station, 48” outer diameter, 6” wide transfer or an 8 station, 34” outer diameter, 4” wide transfer, to accommodate your exact processing requirements.
Modular Linear Palletized Transfer (MLT)
The MLT Transfer is the industry’s first truly modular linear pallet transfer. Unlike traditional palletized systems that become ridged structures once delivered to your floor with fixed conveyor lengths, utility runs and guard structures, the MLT remains modular by design.
The goal of the MLT is to provide self-contained, linear “building block” transfer segments, each capable of two or more automated process stations per module. Automated MLT modules can be linked in virtually unlimited numbers adding a multitude of combinations of processes or product mix into a single transfer system.
Fixture pallets advance to or from automated or manual stations in a synchronous motion, moving from one MLT transfer module to another. Processes are completed on both an outgoing and return lane effectively doubling process station options in a highly efficient footprint and consuming minimal production floor space.
Each MLT transfer is self-contained and linked to the line controller with simple “daisy chain” utility hook-ups. Each 24” wide module is in fact assembled to independent welded steel frames and castors so the entire module can be pulled from the production line and be replaced or expanded with another in minutes not days or weeks! Hard-wired utility runs, fixed conveyor size and lengths and monstrous floor space requirements are all eliminated with the MLT system at a fraction of the cost of the traditional aluminum “erector set” designs.
Modular Automation Process Stations
Both the MRT and the MLT platforms accept the advanced Adaptek Systems Modular Automation Process Stations. Each modular automation process station is individually interconnected with proven and robust AS-i (Actuator Sensor Interface buss) network I/O links, quick release mountings and modular utility connections. Most stations are totally self-contained with electronics and plumbing combined in an integrated package requiring minutes to remove from the system, instead of hours with conventional automation.
The Modular Automation process Station's design offers advantages both to the Adaptek Systems Team during the design and builds process, as well as the end user on the production floor. Stations can be built, debugged or repaired off line as needed. In fact, some stations can even be available as instant drop-in replacements for part style changeovers or in the event some stations require extensive calibration or maintenance which could be better completed off-line.
Contact the Adaptek Systems Team to learn more about the tremendous design and production advantages for the exclusive Modular Station Ring Dial Transfer, Modular Linear Palletized Transfer, and Modular Automation Process Stations platforms. It just might be your final solution to the high cost of automated production.