Magazining
The magazining is a form of storing of workpieces. During magazining, the workpieces are stored in a magazine in an orderly position. When bunkering, however, they are stored in a disordered manner.
Magazining is therefore more complex than bunkering, but the removal of the workpieces is easier and can also easily be done with industrial robots .
A distinction is made between the following magazines:
- Funnel magazines
- The components lie in a funnel and are removed from below.
- Shaft magazines
- The individual workpieces lie one above the other in a shaft. This also includes the weapon magazines in which cartridges are stored.
- Runway magazine
- Round components are in an inclined plane and roll along the track. The side surfaces ensure that the workpieces cannot twist sideways.
- Step magazine
- There are several inclined levels on top of each other.
- Conveyor belt magazine
- The workpieces are placed in order on one end of a conveyor belt and removed again at the other end.
- Slide way magazine
- Like the roller conveyor magazine, except that the workpieces do not roll but slide over the surface (slipping)
- Chain magazine
- In a rotating chain (usually a link chain ) there are holders for individual workpieces. Often used as a tool magazine on machine tools .
- Lifting magazine
- The workpieces are stacked in a recess. They are lifted out of the recess by a mechanism.
- Pallet magazine
- The work pieces are on a special pallet in which there are indentations into which the individual work pieces fit. Similar to the blisters of chocolate packaging.
- Turntable or revolver
- The workpieces are on the edge of a rotating round table. Also often used for tools on machine tools.
literature
- Europa-Lehrmittel (Ed.): Industrial Manufacturing - Manufacturing Processes , 3rd Edition, 2008, p. 519.
- Danglmeier: Production planning , Springer, 2nd edition, p. 750.