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Irregularly spaced products need to be correctly spaced for insertion into a flighted conveyor. An encoder from the flighted conveyor is fed into the auxiliary axis of the motion controller and a sensor detects the position of the flight.
A second sensor determines the position of the product (which is fed into a high speed position latch on the controller). The infeed conveyor locks position with the outfeed conveyor using the Mint FOLLOW command. When the product is detected, it's position is calculated in relation to the next flight. A positional move (using the Mint OFFSET keyword) advances or retards the product into the flight.