With a large number of drives, rotating cardboard tubes, guide rollers and a circular knife it is necessary to cover a whole set of hazard risks. The special purpose machinery manufacturer attaches great importance to integrated automation and safety solutions that make machines safe, productive and easy to operate. For reasons of efficiency and costs, …
We would like to thank the many visitors who made their way to our stand at IFAT 2022 over the past week. All halls and open areas in Munich were fully booked – for us as an exhibitor, that meant there was lots going on in the halls, leading to numerous visitors to our stand …
Every year transport operator De Lijn carries more than 500 million passengers in and around Antwerp. Some of the railway control systems of Antwerp’s metro network are beginning to show their age: The software-based automation system PSS 4000-R(ail) is replacing the obsolete technology and is more reliable, more powerful and more efficient. The technology is being changed over on …
The Bombardier mainline locomotive equipped with the radio remote control system LocControl100 from Schweizer Electronic can split or assemble freight trains without a driver. The shunter uses a hand-held terminal to move the locomotive forwards and backwards, brake and accelerate from a distance of up to 1,000 m away. Schweizer Electronic, responsible for control system, programming, …
The intelligence of the machine in the service of soil wellness also goes through Selet’s products. Our company offers efficient products for applications in the agricultural sector, which, over the last decades, has increasingly moved towards automation, distancing workers from the mere figure of a farmhand. Agriculture is in constant evolution; if we think of …
When converting to the Industrial Ethernet Standard Profinet with TCP/IP Xactools opted for PMCtendo DD5 from Pilz. Thanks to the new servo amplifiers it is possible to drive servo, asynchronous and linear motors, rotary direct drives and servo linear actuators from almost any manufacturer. The internal programming option in the servo controller enables PMCtendo DD5 …
The Austrian systems integrator stands for innovative turnkey solutions in the field of complex robot technology, interlinked machines and special purpose machinery. The company designs, develops and manufactures control systems and plants to the customer’s requirements. The special competence of SRW is the planning, integration and interlinking of individual components. http://www.pilz.com It was equally decisive …
SRW opted for a barrier-free safety solution from Pilz in two different plants: Light curtains PSENopt II safeguard the process on a cartoner filling station, which erects cartons fed in via conveyor technology and then has a robot stack them in transport containers. They enable flexible loading and unloading, without disrupting the production process. PSENopt …
So when developing the case erector Tablomat LE a new, sustainable automation and safety concept was included. The requirement was for diagnostic data from the sensors to be available to the machine controller in real-time so that the plant operator can retain a complete overview of the machine status. There are four safety gates on …
The new “Zugspitze cable car” was opened in 2017 on Germany’s highest peak, the Zugspitze (2,962 m) . The record-breaking aerial tramway climbs 1,945 metres along a length of 4,467 metres. Two gondolas transport up to 580 people per hour to the mountain station and back to the valley. With up to 5,000 passengers per …