Piston ring inspection system. The manufacture of piston rings needed a system to automatically pick up, store and deliver piston rings in bulk to final inspection. The drawing show the finished solution. We used a large container (750# of product) and a four position auto load station with conveyors running from the shaker to the top of each loading position. Once loaded the container would be transfer to the pick up position and a call would be placed for the transfer car to pick up the container and deliver it to a power and free loading station. The containers were designed (and built by us) to be handled on roller conveyor as well as on and off from the P7F system. Once loaded on the P&F system the carrier went into a storage bank for a preset cure time carried along with the container by a read/write IF tag. Once the cure time had been satisfied, the container would be to one of three auto inspection stations, or to a manual inspection station. Each of the auto stations incorporated a lift and dump (by weight) station to dump the rings unto the infeed of the inspection system at a “metered” rate. Once emptied the container would be delivered back to the system load area.