The hardware

MecLab is delivered in practical, stackable Systainers, which function as storage units as well as transport packaging.

MecLab is delivered fully assembled and ready for immediate use.

MecLab is sturdy and fully capable of withstanding the rigors of a school environment.

The individual stations have different functions:

- The Stacking Magazine station contains a workpiece storage container and a feed separator.

- The Conveyor station can transport and sort workpieces.

- The Handling station can grip the workpieces and deposit them at defined points.The accompanying documents on CD-ROM

The complete package includes a CD-ROM with:

- Start-up instructions: detailed step-by-step instructions showing how to connect the stations to the computer and how to write simple programs, with teacher's tips for lesson planning.

- Theoretical text with the fundamentals of pneumatics, electrical engineering, electrical actuators, sensors and control technology.

- Book of exercises with 5-7 exercises per station and prepared worksheets in *.doc format with solutions; these can be easily adapted to meet your particular requirements.

- Prepared Power

Point presentations with extensive visual materials for use in class

- Videos

- Technical data for all components

Control with FluidSim software

The stations are controlled with FluidSim software and the EasyPort interface.

FluidSim® is the application for creating and simulating pneumatic and electrical circuits and programmable logic controllers. With its universal PC interface, FluidSim® can control the MecLab® stations directly. As a result, students can follow a continuous functional chain from the circuit diagram to simulation to control.

Since FluidSim® is supplied as a classroom license, the number of students who can work with FluidSim® at one time is limited to six per station. They can use it to try out their solutions in simulation before testing them on the real station. Moreover, FluidSim® provides information at the click of a mouse button about all components, and many informative animated sequences.

The complete package

Contains everything you need for working with MecLab®:

- 1 Stacking Magazine station

- 1 Conveyor station

- 1 Handling station

- 1 compressor 230 V with connector for DE, FR, NO, SE, FI, PT, ES, AT, NL, BE, GR, TR, IT, DK, IR, ID or 1 compressor 110 V with connector for US, CA, Central America, BR, CO, YU, EC, KR

- 3 x EasyPort to connect the stations to the computer

- 3 x power supply unit with connector for DE, FR, NO, SE, FI, PT, ES, AT, NL, BE, GR, TR, IT, DK, IR, ID or 3 x power supply unit with connector for US, CA, Central America, BR, CO, YU, EC, KR

- FluidSim

- Documents on CD-ROM

- Workpieces

- Tools

- Screw set

- Systainers