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The high precision and speed added to an extreme flexibility of his equipment are the bases for applications of high provision, in addition to reducing radically the costs
B&R: Automation in packs and packaging of high level
12 March 2012
Through the years B&R has characterised by his bet to develop products technologically upper so that each one of them convert by himself same in a competitive advantage. The process of continuous improvement of the company has allowed him stand out through the years in different industrial states and to his time participate actively in organisations like OMAC-PackML that look for to standardise the development of machinery in the industry of packs and packaging.
It is precisely in the sector of packs and packaging where recognised manufacturers of machinery like Ulma and Carugil in Spain have seen undoubtedly benefited attaining a remarkable increase in the profitability of his machinery:
- integrated cheese cheese automation, simple and escalable
- structure opened for the communication, programming and hygiene
- flexibility in the application and configuration of the hardware
- servo accionamientos with precision of microseconds
- use of standards like OMAC-PackML
- high precision and greater speed of operation
- access and remote maintenance
- complete range of products of automation
- significant reduction of costs in all sense.
Group of product of B&R for machinery and processes of packs and packaging.
Machinery based in open architecture
Inside OMAC exist different groups of work, one of which is PackML that has developed a model of states based in the context of packs and packaging having like mission establish a series of contours for the communications between the machinery of production inside this industry.
Inside OMAC exist different groups of work, one of which is PackML that has developed a model of states based in the context of packs and packaging
To reach his aim, PackML has given to the task of recolectar, between users and providers, terms of common use like name of states and definitions, elements, structures, types of data, values and ranks, so that it have an interface conventional that can be dress and understood easily inside the industry of packs and packaging. In addition to the model of states, PackML has defined a series of variables allocated basically to control the states and transitions inside said model.
Application of PackML
Carugil Has developed a machine, Multipista CWM-10, of final of line of production for packed of licorice implementing the model of states of agreement to PackML. With her it is possible to wrap simultaneously until 10 products of continuous way with a speed of until 10 m/min independently of the length of product inside his rank of operation. The reference of speed can be local, configured by the operator from screen, remotamente via PC or synchronise to the strip transportadora of one the previous line.
To reach the levels of quality required in production, this machine uses the systems of B&R that offer:
- integrated cheese cheese control with Power Signpost: with control, visualisation and motion in the same device
- significant saving of space in the electrical cupboard when using also modules of And/S X20 very compact and of high granularidad
- parameters of machine and user to the equal that levy them electronic can be changed also in production
- servos intelligent of the family Acopos with integrated cheese cheese functionality and with a cycle of 400 µs
- communication with Ethernet Powerlink in real time and with a lower precision of a microsecond achieving of this way precisions up to now no reached without mattering the speed of the machine
- an only tool of software Automation Studio that accompanies to the technician of application from the statement of the hardware inside the project software until the machine was 100% operable
- access and remote maintenance so much with Automation Studio as through the Server VNC
- updates of program from a memory stick USB without need of special software, wire or specialist.
In the visualisation of the project exists a page that deploys the model of states PackML adapted to the functionality of the machine. In Multipista CWM-10 the states of agreement to PackML are the following:
- Aborted: result of a stop of emergency or fails in the machine
- Resetting: after the state Aborted and when executing a Reset of the machine
- Go him: axles joined up to the master and in state of wait
- Starting: machine in course
- Execute: machine in course and production
- Suspend: production suspended temporarily
- Stopping: unemployment controlled.
State PackML.
Of this way, with only a brief glimpse to this diagram will be able to obtain general information about the state in that it find the machine facilitating like this the operation of the same.
B&R Is the ideal partner for the automation of machinery and processes of the container and the packaging, thank you the open integrated cheese cheese automation, simple and escalable is possible to increase the flexibility and speed of possible production and reduce costs sure enough.
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