Videos

 

Interview with the Managing Director Norville

Interview with Mr Nevil Trotter, Managing Director of Norville. The Norville Group is an independent family owned business, based in Gloucester in the South-West of England.  They supply up to 6000 pairs of specials each day on a very quick lead time.

  
 

MONK Glazing Feed System

Fully automated conveyor system feeding spectacle lens job trays into two lines. 

Work is fed to Assembly and Quality control operatives.  Our bar code system communicates and retrieves job information from the customer warehouse system.

  
 

MONK Tinting & Coating System

This is a conveyor system to help efficiently run optical tinting and coating rooms.б═ Jobs are automatically routed and sorted using our barcode system which reads the job number and our software retrieves VCA tag data.б═ This enables us to sort work into designated types.б═ Work is automatically stored in our gravity roller storage tables.б═ Work can also be automatically sorted by tint colour and tint graduation number.

  
 

Inspection, Packing & Dispatch

Automatic conveyor feed system distributing
to five inspection machines and then into two packaging
and dispatch lines.

  
 

MONK Tray Stacker M5100

Fully automatic stacking or de-stacking at speeds up to 500 items per hour.

Trays enter the stacking machine on a conveyor, stopped, lifted to the next level and held while the next tray enters underneath. This sequence is repeated until the desired stack height is reached.

 
 

Fully Automatic Machine Loading

Trays are automatically loaded into one of five lanes in the storage system where they wait in a queue. There are 16 trays in each lane giving a storage capacity of 80 trays. One Flex Chain 'Load/Unload Conveyor' runs the complete length of the system, from the tray storage system past all six machines to an out-feed conveyor. The 'Load/Unload Conveyor' has 5 load units and 5 unload units together with sensors and stop gates. The Load/Unload conveyor system is controlled by a PLC (programmable logic controller) which communicates with the five machines PLCs. Sending and receiving signals concerning the loading and unloading of trays.

  
 

Optical Tray Handling System

Trays are automatically loaded onto a stack storage conveyor at the start of the line. The trays are de-stacked and then conveyed to the ground floor of the factory. They are then fed automatically to all of the process machines. The conveyor system is controlled by a PLC (programmable logic controller) which communicates with all the machines individual PLCs. Sending and receiving signals concerning the loading and unloading of trays.

  
 

Spectacle Lens Distribution System

Input:- Boxed lenses are manually placed on an infeed conveyor. Barcodes are checked and the boxes automatically placed onto an inclined conveyor leading to the stores. Boxes are allocated a destination of either Store 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. Output:- Orders for lenses are entered into the computer system which sends a request to the controller. Lenses are then transferred into trays are then automatically conveyed to the dispatch department.

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