Conveyor Team

Team Members
This team is comprised of Dakota W, Jake C, and Jake P.

Objectives
The objective of this team is to design a system for conveying the product from the inspection team's diverter, to the robot, and beyond. They must choose an apropriate size conveyor, buy or design a stand for it, design a way to funnel the product to proper placement on the convyor for the aid of the vision system and the end of arm robot tooling. They must also design safety guards, end-of-line stops, and a post vision system rejection area.They are also in charge of creating a system in which the boxes can be loaded, packed into, and finally returned full and as a ready to ship package.

Design Requirements
There are certain requirements to the design that must be met in order to fulfill the requests of the end-users (Plastics Department, PLC Department, etc...) and design requirements that must be met to ensure compatibility with the rest of the system. Additional requirement shall also be needed to fulfill safety standards and a modular design to accommodate future changes to product or process.

Of particular concern to the Conveyor Team:
 * The part should remain as visible as possible for the benefit of future guest visitations.
 * Diverter should be able to be reject bad product to another area where it can be later retreived.
 * Conveyors should be of standard height or very close, roughly 33".
 * All moving parts must be gaurded and all guards must be fairly easy to remove for future maintenance.
 * Parts and boxes must end up in a very fixed and repeatable position to facilitate proper robot operation.

Working with other teams
The conveyor team must work with both the inspection team and the robot team to ensure their designs are compatible with the other teams. They must ensure the diverter meshes well with the conveyor start. It must ensure that heights can be adjusted or revised to match that of the diverter and robot limits. They must also ensure that the size and shapes of the gaurds and stops do not interfere with the end of arm tooling or the diverter. The end of line product line should be compatible with the robot team's vision and the boxing system should also be designed in a similar fashion.