Rockwell Automation Arena Users Guide - Manual (Page 89)

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Conveyor flowchart modules
Access module
D ESCRIPTION
The Access module allocates one or more cells of a conveyor to an entity for movement
from one station to another. Once the entity has control of the cells on the conveyor, it
may then be conveyed to the next station.
When an entity arrives at an Access module, it will wait until the appropriate number of
contiguous cells on the conveyor are empty and aligned with the entity’s station location.
T YPICAL USES
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Parts accessing a conveyor to be sent to a paint booth
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Glass accessing a conveyor to be transferred to a cutting station
P ROMPTS
Associated Intersection Name of the intersection associated with this station set in a guided
transporter network.
Report Statistics Specifies whether or not statistics will automatically be collected and
stored in the report database for this station set member and its
corresponding activity area.
Prompt Description
Name Unique name of the module that will be displayed in the flowchart.
Conveyor Name Name of the conveyor that the entity desires.
# of Cells Number of contiguous conveyor cells the entity requires for movement
on the conveyor.
Queue Type Determines the type of queue used to hold the entities, either an
individual Queue, a queue Set, and Internal queue or an Attribute or
Expression that evaluate to the queue name.
Queue Name Name of the queue that will hold the entity until it accesses the
conveyor.
Set Name Name of the set of queues.
Prompt Description