Operation Assignment for Insert Pick and Place
Any Subcomponent that is not molded is assigned either the Manual Load or Robotic Load operation of the Insert Pick and Place process. Each of these operations accounts for the time to load a mold insert into the mold or onto a slide or lifter, performed either manually or robotically:
• Manual Load is assigned to a Subcomponent if both the following hold:
o The Subcomponent is not a molded component; that is, the geometric property Is Molded is false.
o The process-level setup option
Manual or Robotic Loading is set to
Manual, which is the default setting in starting point VPEs. Administrators can customize the default with the cost model variable
loadManualOrRobotic.
• Robotic Load is assigned to a Subcomponent if both the following hold:
o The Subcomponent is not a molded component; that is, the geometric property Is Molded is false.
o The process-level setup option
Manual or Robotic Loading is set to
3-axis or 6-axis. The default setting in starting point VPEs is
Manual. Administrators can customize the default with the cost model variable
loadManualOrRobotic.
Molded subcomponents are assigned the no-cost operation As Molded.
Note that agreement with
Manual or Robotic Loading is a feasibility requirement for these operations.
Do not override feasibility checks and manually assign different loading operations to different subcomponents. The same loading operation must be assigned to all non-molded subcomponents, or operation results will be incorrect (cycle times will reflect the assigned operations, but labor times will reflect the setting of
Manual or Robotic Loading).