Preconfiguration "Conveyor belts"

Animation of movements on the set of conveyor belts

This preconfiguration can be activated when creating a new object (e.g. by "New object ..." in the context menu of the object or by pressing the Insert key after selecting the object). This preconfiguration is included in the "/ Technology / Conveyors" group. This preconfiguration can be created in the PmaFolder, PmaRoot or PmaPrototype object.



Development environment PROMOTIC - object description and setup

The Timer object in the Data subobject serves for managing the movement of material on the belts. The individual steps are described directly in the script comments. This object does not need to be set up.

in the Belts object on the "DataTable" tab in the "Maximum row number" configurator, the number of conveyors is defined. in the Boxes object, the maximum number of packages travelling on these belts can be set the same way. In the superior object "Data" on the "Events" tab in the onStart event, it is necessary to modify the values of the initial script in the nBoxes and nBelts variables. At the end of the script, the initialization state of each belt is defined as described in the comment.

The objects in the EmulComm subobject are not essential for the animation itself. But these can be used as manual for connecting the data from the communication (emulated by the PmaSequencer object) to variables in the PmaData object. These variables then use data binding or method calling in the onItemAfterWrite event in order to write data into the corresponding PmaDataTable objects.

Editor of PmaPanel graphics - description and setup of Pmg objects

The Conveyors object includes the PmgLine objects named "belt0" to "beltX". These objects have iBelt and dir parameters set in the "Pmg object parameters" configurator. The iBelt parameter specifies the order (index) in the Belt group. The dir parameter specifies the movement direction of "boxes" on the belt with values varying from 1 to 4. The number of these objects must correspond to the number defined in the Belts object in the application.

There are additional objects PmgInstance named "box0" to "boxX". These objects have the iBox parameter set in the "Pmg object parameters" configurator that specifies their order (index). The number of these objects must correspond to the number defined in the Boxes object in the application.