Turntable automation for screen printing of diagnostic slides

Automation for screen printing of diagnostic slides for medical research labs.

Operation:
Turntable with 4 positions provided with vacuum.
Unprinted slides are imported in 7 loading mechanism.
In table position 1 a servo driven pick and place brings 7 slides to the turn table.
In the next table position are the slides aligned in the correct printing position.
At the next post the slides are printed by the screen printing machine.
Lastly the sprinted slides are picked up at the edges.
During the output movement are the printed slides controlled for quality by a vision system.
The approved slides are put down in arrangement while the rejected slides are discarded. While the slides are put down they are brought closer together.
The output sheets are moved by a conveyor belt. These steel plates are used to move the slides to the oven.
This automation has a cyclus time of less then 5 seconds for 7 slides and consequently produces 84 slides a minute.
Astratec produced this machine for Immuno-cell.