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16-2 Motion Mate™ DSM314 for Series 90™-30 PLCs User's Manual – January 2001 GFK-1742A
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M
aster
E
ncoder
Product
Blade
Cutter
Motor
Figure 16-2. Rotary Knife Application
Another example application is a bottle filling line (reference Figure 16-3 and Figure 16-4). In this
case, the lift that raises and lowers the bottles serves as the CAM master. The slave is the plunger
that pushes the fluid into the bottle. In this example, the bottles have a curved shape. Thus the fill
rate must be varied to account for this shape
P
lunger
P
osition
(
Slave)
Top of
Fill Tank
Bottom of
Fill Tank
Master
Encoder
F
ill Quickly in
t
he Beginning
Return to
Position
Slow Down
Near the Top
of the Bottle
(
X
i
,
Y
i
)
Figure 16-3. Filling Application Position to Position Table