lftmx3
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A line in our plant has always had an issue where everytime the jar filler stops/restarts, it wastes 5-8 bottles because of underfills. FWIW, the product is Mayonnaise. The machine uses Kinetix 6500's to control all associated motors. The rotating turret with the fill spouts is the master drive/motor. The product is pumped into the turret spouts with another drive that is geared to the master.
I haven't attempted tried yet, but I do have some ideas. Could the gear ratio in the MAG instruction be ramped down on the fly, with machine moving? Or can that value only be changed at stop? I could be thinking of this wrong, but my thought is starting the machine with that value at say 1.3, then gradually decreasing it down to the normal running value of .8 would allow the first few bottles to fill faster. Is this possible?
I haven't attempted tried yet, but I do have some ideas. Could the gear ratio in the MAG instruction be ramped down on the fly, with machine moving? Or can that value only be changed at stop? I could be thinking of this wrong, but my thought is starting the machine with that value at say 1.3, then gradually decreasing it down to the normal running value of .8 would allow the first few bottles to fill faster. Is this possible?