The empty mould plates are transfered to to the wax room by the mould return conveyor, where they are transferred to the wax conveyor.

The wax patterns are assembled manually onto the mould plate and the operator enters the component number onto a keypad. This can be key or barcode entry.

The control program checks the entered component number to ascertain that a robot recipe (program) exists for that component.

On confirmation of the program, the hanger will move forward one space to allow loading of the next plate.

When 20 hangers have been loaded the controller will allocate a batch number to the 20 hangers and they will wait for the robot cycle to begin.

The first wax assembly will be indexed to the robot pick-up point.

Now click at the Robot.