Part No.

206389

Makeready and Operation Procedures

Quick Start

QuadTech Robotic Palletizer

2004 QuadTech, Inc.

IMPORTANT
For complete safety rules and operating instructions, refer to the QuadTech
Robotic Palletizer Operator Manual.
Perform the procedures in this quick start to set up and run the robotic palletizer.
Figure 1 Robot Edit Job Screen

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Job Name text box

Length (bundle) text box
Signature Length text box
Signature Width text box
Bundle Rotation button
Layer Rotation button
Tier Sheets button
Depth (empty pallet) text box
Height (empty pallet) text box

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Width (empty pallet) text box

Bundles Per Layer text box
Layers Per Pallet text box
Sample Pallet group box
Edit Active Job button
Save button
Open button
New button
Activate button

PRELIMINARY

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Create a Job
Perform the Creating a job procedure to create a job.
NOTE
A quick method for creating a job is to open a similar job, use the Save As button
to save the new job with a new name, and then perform this procedure.

Creating a job
1 Touch the Robot Edit Job navigational button to display the Robot Edit Job screen (Figure 1).
2 Touch the New button (17) to display the New Job dialog box.
a Touch the job name to display the Keyboard dialog box.
b Enter a new job name and touch the Enter button.
c Touch the Close button.

NOTE
Choose a job name that you can easily identify for future reference.
3 In the Bundle Size group box, set the following:

Length (2)touch this text box to set length of the bundle

Signature length (3)touch this text box to set the incoming edge of the signature
Signature width (4)touch this text box to set the side edge of the signature
Bundle rotation (5)touch this button to set bundle axis rotation (90 or 180 degrees)

NOTE
You will have to make mechanical adjustments to the clamp when you
enable this feature. Refer to the Robotic Palletizer Operator Manual for
more information.
4 In the Production Pallet group box, set the following for the production pallet:

Layer Rotation (6)touch this button to select layer rotation (green) or deselect layer
rotation (red)
Tier Sheets (7)touch this button to place tier sheets between layers (all), place tier sheets
at the beginning and end of a pallet (top and bottom), or disable the tier sheet feature (none)
Depth (8) touch this text box to set the depth (length) of the empty pallet
Height (9)touch this text box to set the height of the empty pallet
Width (10)touch this text box to set the width of the empty pallet
Bundles Per Layer (11)touch this text box to set the width of the finished pallet in number
of bundles per layer
Layers Per Pallet (12)touch this text box to set the height of the finished pallet in number
of layers

5 In the Sample Pallet group box (13), set the same options as in step 4 for the sample pallet.
6 Touch the OK button.
7 Touch the Save button (15) to save the job.

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Save Edits to an Active Job

When you make changes to an active job you are changing the job parameters in the PLC memory.
NOTE
An active job is a job that you have opened and activated from the Robot Edit Job screen.
Perform the Saving an edited active job procedure to:

upload changes to an active job from the PLC memory to the touch screen memory

save the job parameters under a new name

Saving an edited active job

IMPORTANT
This procedure assumes that you have opened an existing job, are running from
the Robot Active Job screen (Figure 2), and have made changes to the job.
1 Touch the Robot Edit Job navigational button to display the Robot Edit Job screen (Figure 1).
2 Touch the Edit Active Job button (14).
3 Touch the Save As button to display the Keyboard dialog box.
4 Enter a new job name and touch the OK button.

RESULT: The job is saved.

Figure 2 Active Job Screen

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Open and Activate a Job

Perform the Opening and activating a job procedure to open and activate an existing job.
NOTE
When you touch the Open button, you are only displaying the job parameters
from the touch screen memory to the touch screen display.
When you touch the Activate button, you are downloading the job parameters
from the touch screen memory to the PLC memory.

Opening and activating a job

1 Touch the Robot Edit Job navigational button to display the Robot Edit Job screen (Figure 1).
2 Touch the Open button (16) to display the Job Selection dialog box (Figure 3).

Figure 3 Job Selection Dialog Box

3 Use the arrows to move the selection arrow to the job you want to open.
4 Touch the Enter button to select the highlighted job.
5 Touch the Close button.

RESULT: The job information is displayed on the touch screen.

6 Touch the Activate button (Figure 1; 18).

RESULT: The job information is downloaded to the PLC.

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Run a Job
Perform the following procedures as needed when running the robotic palletizer:

Accepting sample bundles procedure on page 6

Resetting the number of bundles on a production pallet procedure on page 6

Resetting the number of bundles on a sample pallet procedure on page 6

Resetting the sample count procedure on page 6

Figure 4 Run Screen

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2. Pause/Accept button
3. Bundles on Production Pallet text box

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4. Bundles on Sample Pallet text box

5. Sample Count Reset button

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Accepting sample bundles

1 Touch the Run navigational button to display the Run screen (Figure 4).
2 In the Sample Logs group box, touch the Pause/Accept button (2) to toggle between:

Pause Samplesno bundles will are sent to the sample pallet

Accept Samplesbundles go to the sample pallet according to the number set in the Sample
Logs button

NOTE
Touch the Sample Logs button (Figure 4; 1) to set the number of bundles placed on
the sample pallet at a time. For example, if this number is set to three the robotic
palletizer will place three consecutive bundles on the sample pallet.

Resetting the number of bundles on a production pallet

NOTE
If the robotic palletizer gets interrupted, you will have to manually enter the
number of bundles that are on the production pallet.
1 Touch the Run navigational button to display the Run screen (Figure 4).
2 Touch the Bundles on Production Pallet text box (3) to display the Keypad dialog box.
3 Use the keypad to enter the actual number of bundles on the pallet and touch the Enter button.

Resetting the number of bundles on a sample pallet

NOTE
If the robotic palletizer gets interrupted, you will have to manually enter the
number of bundles that are on the sample pallet.
1 Touch the Run navigational button to display the Run screen (Figure 4).
2 Touch the Bundles on Sample Pallet text box (4) to display the Keypad dialog box.
3 Use the keypad to enter the actual number of bundles on the pallet and touch the Enter button.

Resetting the sample count

NOTE
You will have to reset the number of bundles to zero every time you remove the
sample pallet.
1 Touch the Run navigational button to display the Run screen (Figure 4).
2 Touch the Sample Count Reset button (5) to reset the number of bundles on the sample pallet

to zero.
3 Perform the Resetting the number of bundles on a sample pallet procedure.
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