Die gripper crane with WMS 2: 4 + 4 3D animation

The animation shows a Konecranes die gripper crane in a stamping plant at a press line with five moving bolsters on both sides of the press doing a die set change. The idle station for bolster number five is not shown in the animation for simplification.

Four dies are taken from the press bolsters back to the warehouse and a new set of four is moved from the warehouse to the bolsters. 

In this animation, there is one warehousing rule: die number one for bolster number one must always be the bottom-most die on the floor. This affects the die change sequence. The Konecranes Warehouse Management System has all the warehousing rules in its database and is giving all the transfer instructions to the crane PLC.

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