Your solution for the job assignment should
include using a clocked flip-flop similar to the one used to control
the two air compressors in Fig. 6. The solution should also include a
set of flip-flops that provides counting capability like the ones in
Figs. 8, 9, 17, and 18. If you choose to use an up/down counter, the
good parts sensor should be connected to the up-count input, and the
bad parts sensor should be connected to the down-count input. Each time
the good parts sensor transitions, the count is incremented (1 is added
to the total), and each time the bad parts sensor is transitioned, the
count is decremented (1 is subtracted from the total). A self-contained
industrial counter could be used for this part of the application.
If your solution includes a shift register to track the automotive bodies,
it should look like the example in Fig.
11 or 12. A sensor should detect
whether or not a body is present and this information is loaded into
the shift register. The robot welders would take the place of the spray-painting
nozzles as outputs. If a FIFO register is used to keep track of alarm
conditions, it should look like the example in Fig.
15 or 16. Determine
the alarm conditions that your alarms will monitor. |
