Method for managing the production cycle of a plant in a process for building tyres for vehicle wheels

A method for managing the production cycle of a plant for building a tyre for vehicle wheels:

• feeding a plurality of anchoring annular structures, each comprising a bead ring and a filling insert, to a basket within a storage region, wherein the basket feeds the anchoring annular structures in succession to a predetermined picking-up position in three dimensional space, said predetermined picking-up position does not change if anchoring annular structures of the plurality of anchoring annular structures have differing diameters;
• supporting each anchoring annular structure in the basket by a respective supporting member, each supporting member includes an abutment wall comprising a pair of coplanar fins separated from one another by a recess,
• wherein each anchoring annular structure is supported by the respective supporting member at a respective support portion that is defined by a single circular sector at an upper portion of the anchoring annular structure's internal circumference, and
• wherein an uppermost support portion of each anchoring annular structure spans a corresponding recess of its respective supporting member;
• picking up a first anchoring annular structure of the plurality of anchoring annular structures from its uppermost support portion by inserting a gripper into the first anchoring annular structure's corresponding recess of its respective supporting member when the first anchoring annular structure reaches the predetermined picking-up position;
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• carrying with said gripper the first anchoring annular structure by its uppermost support portion to a processing station associated with a forming drum.