System Info

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IIR shows project content as a list of existing layers and each layer content as a list of jobs; where layers and jobs are numbered.

Main Sections

The software is divided into several screens and sections. Some screens might include a different set of components depending on the type and content of the project. A general summary of each section is presented below.

• Main Screen
  Provides basic options to manage project data (Create, Import) and access the software resources (Help and Legal documentation). It also includes options to choose the language of the app's content (Spanish or English)..
• Project Settings
  Shows the information of interest about a project once opened, allowing you to edit the name and type of the project among other settings. It is divided into sections for easy location and understanding: Project Setup, Container Data and finally Product Data.
• Project Content
  It displays the work area with its bottom tools bar and also includes a top bar with links to access the list of layers and the simulation module.
• Work Area
  Shows a representation of the distribution and orientation of the products by layer of the project. The work area is located in the center section of the screen and is bounded by a grid whose vertical and horizontal lines help with alignment and positioning. Displays a visual representation of the products within the selected layer (from the layers list) and changes its content each time the user executes an operation to modify the layer's content. At the bottom side of this screen, there is also a tools bar that provides a large group of available options to transform the content of the layer.
• Layers List
  Lists the existing layers. It provides a set of tools to manage layers (Add, Remove, Duplicate) and help you build a project quickly. It also allows to define the order of the layers and include or not a separator at the beginning of the list of robot's jobs or between layers in a very simple and intuitive way. Last but not least, it provides options to manage each layer jobs, such as: Add a new job, Duplicate, Remove or Reorder (drag) an existing one. Each job listed reflects the number of products that it groups (by default a job is created with a single product inside it).
• Simulation
  Shows a perspective representation of the entire project. It contains a toolbar that allows you to simulate each robot job step by step, personalize the look of the product, control the speed of the animation, visualize the result of the entire design, and confirm the content of each layer.

Work Area

Rules for the work area

• When adding jobs, to draw new products the system uses as default the upper left corner of the grid within the work area, otherwise it looks for the next area with enough empty space to properly use the function.
• Once added to the work area, if a job contains more than one product, all products will move and rotate in unison as a group.
• Products can be dragged and released in a new spot to set new coordinates while its group does not collide with other items.
• Products can not be dragged out of the work area further than the offset lines defined for the project's container.
• Products can be rotated as long as their final position after rotation does not make them collide with other items.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The container's offsets move the layout's edges on all its four sides, and controls the distance to which a product can be placed from the physical boundaries of the container. An offset is measured per coordinate's axis (x or y), from the boundary of the container (which is the point 0) to the outer edge of the layout. The outer edge of the layout could be internal or external to the container's area, depending if the offset's value provided is positive or negative respectively. The edges of the layout overlap the container boundaries when the offset values equals 0. To be allowed offset's values must be smaller than the half of the product's width and its location is represented in the work area by red lines (see sample pictures).

Group of functions that can be applied to the layer's content:

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• * Option available when at least one product/job is selected.

• ** Option available when more than one product/job is selected.

• *** Option available when the layer is squared (width equals length).

• **** Option available when the layer has the capacity to contain more than one product.

The app also includes functions related to the project setup and general data transference such as:

• Create a new project (Main Screen)
• Import a project from an external json file (Main Screen)
• Rename and setup the basic properties of the opened project (Settings Screen)
• Show and edit general data of the project's container and products (Settings Screen)

Main Design Principle

The 'Robot Approach' or 'Job Start Point' is one of the most important design principles to follow when designing an infeed project. The movement approach tells the robot what's the right entrance point and angle it must use to execute each product placement inside the placements sequence designed to avoid it colliding with the products already placed inside the container. Outfeed projects do not require the user to specify the robot movement approach, it will always move straight up when executing a job.

Make sure to specify the right robot approach for each product placement inside the sequence when creating the design of an infeed project. Diagonal movements are the best approaches to avoid products collisions when doing a placement. Robot approaches are implemented as follows:

Robot Approach with its placement sequence

Simulation

In this section of the tool, an automatic simulation is generated according to the project information. The simulation takes into account different factors that are described below:

• Container (Pallet by default) dimensions (Width x Length x Height)
• Product dimensions (Width x Length x Height)
• Number of layers to be fulfilled for completing the project
• Number of robot jobs per layer to place the corresponding products
• Separators between layers and before the very first layer

Functions to manage the display of the simulation

• Decrease or increase the speed of the simulation
• Start, Stop or Pause the simulation of the project
• Edit Project's Job number from where to start the simulation.
• Show the current job over the total job amount in the project
• Show the current layer over the total number of layers
• Show the current job over the total jobs amount in a layer
• Display functions to customize the product view.

Functions to customize the product appearance

• Choose a product: It allows to select the type of object to be shown.
• Choose a Label: It allows to set product labels or to remove the image set for the selected label.
• Choose an object color: It allows to select the color for the texture of the products drawing.
• Enable accent: It allows to add or remove accents for the product type selected. For example the tape if the product selected is a box, or the handle if the product selected is a tank

Below is an example of how a simulation looks for a project containing 2 layers and 6 jobs per layer.