exhibition preview
What are the drivers behind adaptive manufacturing? See B&R on stand 2
Pilz shows how to guarantee Machinery Safety in the digitised world See Pilz on Stand 41
Guaranteeing employee protection against machine hazards, maintaining productivity and shield control systems from unauthorised internal or external manipulation are all hot topics in industry, especially in the face of increasing digitisation.
To succeed in a world of mass customisation, e-commerce, direct- to-consumer and omnichannel strategies, you need to design machinery that’s built to adapt. Today’s consumers expect to get the products they want, when they want them, and personalised to their preferences. To meet this challenge, machine builders are designing machinery that adapts to the products being made and packaged, rather than forcing products to conform to a rigidly sequential process. B&R enables machine builders to realise innovative designs through track-based and planar product transport systems integrated with robotics, machine vision, and digital twins and controlled with our core automation platform of hardware and software. The processing and packaging machine designs of the future will enable changeover on the fly, will be ready for unforeseen products, will offer high performance over a smaller footprint and will enable profitable personalisation. Independently controlled shuttles allow the adaptive machine to change product format on-the-fly with no lost productivity. Changeovers are pushbutton fast and fully automated, with no tools, change parts or human intervention. A production line can even be readily reconfigured to run new products, thanks to a modular design and simulating the new operations. Flexible track layouts, load-balanced parallel processing, full-speed merging, and dividing of product flow, perfectly synchronized robots: the adaptive machine handles higher volumes of shorter runs with gre ater product variability. There’s no need for queuing or buffers, for an even smaller footprint. Digital twin optimises designs upfront and allows easy adaptation to future requirements. With the adaptive machine, there’s no compromise between flexibility and performance. Tight synchronisation of independently controlled shuttles leads to higher throughput and greater productivity. Replace rigidly timed sequential processes with dynamic, responsive solutions – and discover new dimensions of efficiency and productivity. The adaptive machine supports digital business strategies with the ability to deliver cost-effective, automated, make-to-order mass customisation. Manufacturers can now offer personalised, even batch-size-one order fulfilment directly from the production line to the consumer. www.br-automation.com
Visitors to MachineBuilding.Live will be able to discuss these topics and their individual Machinery Safety issues and solutions with Pilz in- house safety experts. Alongside modular control and safe sensor technology, key product innovations demonstrated will include ‘Identification and Access Management’ solutions. These offer functionality such as user authentication, safe operating mode selection, data and network security and access management, thereby guaranteeing employee protection against hazards and shielding control systems from unauthorised manipulation. The Company will also be showcasing its comprehensive portfolio of Consultancy Services – supporting machine builders and end-users alike in their safety compliance journey – including demonstrations of the ‘Puwer Assessment Tool’ which allows end-users to benefit from a tried and tested app to complete in-house PUWER Assessments. Those wishing to develop their own competence in machinery safety can find details of the latest in the Pilz programme of certified training courses, including the updated ‘CMSE – Certified Machinery Safety Expert’, ‘CEFS – Certified Expert in Functional Safety’ and ‘CESA – Certified Expert for Security in Automation’. Pilz safety experts will be sharing their knowledge and thoughts regarding safety compliance in the modern landscape as part of the event workshop programme with their presentation ‘Machinery safety legislation – recent changes and what they mean’. www.pilz.com
Stober putting things into motion
See Stober on Stand 23
Another product on show is Stober’s single cable solution that connects motors and drive controllers up to 100 metres apart using future-proof Heidenhain Endat 3, for maximum quality transmission, diagnosis, safety and performance. Features include: automatic system installation with electronic nameplate; digital transmission of position values and sensor datal low cabling effort; shortened installation time; and reduced material and operating costs. Stober will also be showing some of its integrated geared servo motors – demonstrating this integrated technology saves space, time and cost, whilst providing higher performance. You will also see various gear technologies, including planetary inline and planetary P pange, right angle
Experience Stober’s motion control technology at MachineBuilding.Live, including live demonstrations. You’ll be able to see the SI6 single or twin axis modular system combined with Stober’s extensive geared servo motor range, or the super-slim, space-saving SC6 that gives you more space in cabinet. Features include PROFINET, PROFIsafe, PROFIdrive EtherCAT, FSoE and CiA402. Also on show will be the LeanMotor. Lighter, smaller and with its IE5 classification, Stober says the LeanMotor is more energy-efficient than an asynchronous motor while delivering the same power. Also, it is said to be cheaper and more rugged than a conventional servo motor. The LeanMotor eliminates the need for encoder when combined with the SI/SC6 controllers. Fan- and blower-free, it is a compact design. And with no electronics located in motor it is suited for use in challenging environments. It offers dynamic regulation of speed and torque at low speed. Positional accuracy is specified to ±1%, and speed deviation is less than 1%.
KS range, plus the helical inline C range and helical bevel KL range. www.stober.co.uk
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