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2 past editions
⚡ Week 29 / 2026 13 Jul – 27 Jul 2026
SORTLINE — Vision-Guided Sorting Cell
Design, program and prove a 4-way sorting station that holds a 3-second cycle.
A packaging plant receives four product variants mixed on a single infeed conveyor — and sorts them by hand, three shifts a day. Management bought a camera, a 800 mm delta robot and an S7-1500 before hiring engineers; now your crew has to turn that shopping list into a cell that actually sorts 1 200 products per hour into four lanes. Miss the 3-second cycle and the upstream line backs up; jam the reject path and the whole plant stops. Design the cell, define every signal, build the logic, and prove the timing.
⚡ Week 18 / 2026 27 Apr – 03 May 2026
Automated Sorting Cell
Design, program and optimize a full 3-axis sorting station
A packaging company needs to sort 4 different product types from a mixed conveyor into dedicated lanes using a vision-guided pick & place robot. Design the full system.
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