Mattison

it is APV.  its the old pusher type rather than bucket feed. the pusher doesn't push relative to where the dough piece is. purely on a pulse every swing of the prover. it didnt help when i went to site to look at it the divider was running faster than the prover, so more dough pieces than the prover could handle. was never going to work. few tweeks sorted this out.   

Yes, you are correct. we drop 4 pieces back to back then pull a gap on the next conveyor into the conical rounder. i think what is happening is the dough pieces are getting stuck in the rounder and then end up in two pockets of the 1st prover.   the 3 'smart' conveyors are directly after the rounder feeding the prover. its an old plant and the customer with it may be a cheaper fix than replacing the actual problem. usual customer is always right...... 

Hi, been given the task of gaping dough pieces over 3 conveyors to reduce/correct the error in position I will know the rate a which the dough pieces 'should' be coming at me (7000 per hour) so around 0.5 seconds between dough pieces I plan to use power-flex 525 drives over Ethernet in studio 5000 my thoughts would be to have a photocell timing falling edge to falling edge of product and then working out a % to increase or decrease speed of the next conveyor. not 100% on how i would do it to achieve an accurate result. the 3 conveyors are spanning a gap of 1 meter so need to work out whether these need to be equal in length or not. and ideas that would a better solution or any sample code for something similar would be great. Thanks Ben