B&R Offers a wide catalogue of modular products: servoaccionamientos IP65, motors step by step IP67, etc.

What felt has the software modulate if it is limited to an architecture centralised or to a hardware modulate in determinate parts of the system? During a lot of years, B&R has been offering a wide fan of products for the construction of modular machines. His line of industrial PC, panels of control, automatons, modules of entrance-flexible exit, servoaccionamientos, variators of frequency or solutions for motors step by step are example of this.

Up to now, they have been precisely the own electronic equipment those that have posed the greater obstacle to the modular machines, since they needed to be situated in electrical cabinets to protect them in front of the adverse conditions of the plant of production. The design modulate of machines did necessary to have of an additional electrical cupboard by each one of the modules mecatrónicos or, in his defect, a central electrical cupboard the sufficiently big to be able to house all the available options. B&R Offers a solution to this problem of manufacture by means of a wide catalogue of modular products: servoaccionamientos IP65, motors step by step IP67, or modules of entrance-gone out with protection IP67 among others many.

The servoaccionamiento of B&R AcopoSmulti IP65, in addition to being totally compatible with the Acopos standard with IP20, is available with functionalities of hygiene. It exists besides the possibility to install a source of able active feeding to increase significantly the efficiency of the machine, thanks to that the power generated in the process of braked puts to disposal of other equipment instead of being transformed in heat.

In the specific case of a machine of packed in the pharmaceutical sector, the half power during the process of braked was of 1.300 watts. 82% of the necessary power was turned into heat by the resistance of braked. Using the AcopoSmulti, jointly with the connection to the bus DC, achieved a recovery of 90% of the power of the process of braked, becoming his consumption only 46% of the total power employee before his installation.

The current position of an encoder or a reading of a mark put to disposal of all the stations that are connected in Powerlink, reaching retardos and resolutions of microseconds in addition to guaranteeing a perfect synchronisation. Depending on the characteristics of the machine, the obtaining of this information can be realised directly in the AcopoSmulti65 or directly extracting the information of the Powerlink.

Besides, the modules of the AcopoSmulti65 are instrumented with an exit for the feeding of external components, as well as of a hub of Powerlink that allows to connect additional stations of Powerlink such like modules of entrance-gone out X67, systems of vision or variators of frequency.

In addition to deleting the need of a source of external feeding and to reduce the wired up of the machine, this exit of 24 volts in continuous offers to the servomotors, motors step by step, motors DC and to those modules of entrances-exit connected, the possibility to follow synchronised in his process of stop in the case of a blackout. Also it is possible the control synchronised of valves and other actuators. All this allows that the material do not spoil in continuous processes of packaging, achieving in this way an improvement in the availability and productivity of the machine.