Overview, 1 introduction, 2 about your adept anyfeeder – Adept AnyFeeder User Manual

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Adept AnyFeeder User’s Guide, Rev. B

Overview

1.1

Introduction

This manual describes the key points for getting your Adept AnyFeeder operational.
Before getting started, make sure you have all the components necessary to set up your
Adept AnyFeeder. In addition to the Adept AnyFeeder (shown in

Figure 1-1

below), it is

assumed that you have the appropriately configured Adept-controlled robot with vision
guidance. (See

Section 1.3

and

Section 2.1

for details.)

Figure 1-1. Adept AnyFeeder

1.2

About Your Adept AnyFeeder

Your Adept AnyFeeder provides flexible parts feeding without the limitations of a
hard-tooled feed system (such as a bowl-feeder or tray-feeding system). The Adept
AnyFeeder is designed for feeding a wide variety of parts with rapid change-over times.

Your Adept AnyFeeder package includes:

• Adept AnyFeeder SX240 (P/N 05284-001)

• White Flat Feed Surface (P/N 05284-101)

• 24 VDC Power Cable, 5 m (P/N 05284-301)

• Parallel DIO (Digital I/O) cable, 5 m (P/N 05284-302)

• RS232 Cable, 4.5 m (P/N 05284-303)

• RS232 Loopback Connector (not used for Serial installations) (P/N 05284-304)