Pneumatic Feeder/Stacker (Rockwell PLC and Drives, England)

Retrofit of PLCs/Robotics

Objectives:

Our client, an automatic processing lines manufacturer, ask us to collaborate in the engineering of a feeding and stacking line for plasterboard, with the programming and fine-tuning of part of the installation.

This assignment is a consequence of the successful execution of a similar project in the USA, which significantly increased the client’s production capacities, and in which we participated by programming and fine-tuning.

Milestones:

  • Set-up of the product stacker/feeder. This involves:
    • Configure and test the electrical panel hardware. Decentralized I/O, servo drives, Yaskawa drives, STRATIX managed Switches, etc.
    • Program the Rockwell control PLC by using the STUDIO 5000 Logix Designer platform, according to the operating loads notebook described.
    • Real acceptance tests with the client, prior to sending the machines to their destination.
    • Fine-tuning at the end customer’s facilities, which are in process.

The great milestone of this automation has been the realization of a PLC programming that solves the automation contemplating the multiple working modes of the installation (Feeder Mode, Stacker mode, Gaps Filling Mode), changing modes without stopping the line, and all this according to the demands made from a master PLC that knows the availability of the line downstream of the feeder/stacker.

This flexibility is only possible after having carried out an efficient and adequate PLC program design, with high-level function grapcets, which allow quick modifications to be made in the future, work carried out by our INISA Engineers.

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Automation Engineering

Continuous processing lines, winding and unwinding of product
  • Selection of components, design of electrical drawings and supply of switchboards.
  • Configuration and implementation of field buses and industrial networks in plant (Intranet and Extranet) (Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet IP, Interbus). Field wiring installations.
  • Programming of Human Machine Interfaces /SCADA, on PC touch panels, Web servers, (VB NET, SQL database management, ERP connection), with all protocols, such as OPCUA, Modbus, Ethernet IP, FINS, S7 protocol.
  • PLC programming, Robots and servo drives for axis control, Variable speed drives…
  • Replacement of old equipment (Siemens S5 to S7, Omron CQM1 to CJ2, Sysmac Studio)
  • Start-up and operational testing of the installation, national and international. Production assistance.

Retrofit of
PLCs /
Robotics

Automation of grinding and blending processing lines

Upgrade your PLC / Robot / SCADA, both hardware and software (Increased performance and/or functional improvements, such as the complete redesign of a CFF (flexible manufacturing cell).

RD1215 Regulations

Automation of grinding and blending processing lines

Adaptation to machine safety regulations, CE marking, making updates to standards.

Embedded systems
HW & SW

Automation of grinding and blending processing lines

Selection and design of technologies that allow us to create projects with our own product, using Industrial communications standards (Modbus, MQTT, Bluetooh, BLE, Wifi, Zigbee), for the most diverse sectors, home automation, Industrial, Automotive, with examples of products in progress.

Industry 4.0 IIOT

Automation of grinding and blending processing lines

Industrial Internet of Things. Traceability, events, maintenance, Notifications / Mail production reports, cloud, with PLCs or Things currently in their factories or newly implemented. Use of connectivity protocols between devices, such as MQTT and others.

Maintenance and TAS

Continuous processing lines, winding and unwinding of product

By means of remote and/or on-site remote assistance, anywhere in the world, which allows improvements, programme changes and fault resolution. Also on implementations of other manufacturers. Our experience in different processes and knowledge of the technologies at your service in the rapid resolution of faults.

Industrial Robotics

Continuous processing lines, winding and unwinding of product

Programming and fine-tuning services for industrial robots in a wide range of business sectors. For this purpose, we have a team of programmers experienced in integrating robots from the main manufacturers: KUKA, ABB, FANUC

Industrial Software Developments

ENERGY / RENEWABLES
  • Communication between machines or systems, Profibus networks, Ethernet, ProfiNet…
  • Process or machine solutions for supervision, control, monitoring, real-time data acquisition for applications, customised software, process traceability.

Technical Advice

Analysis, solution proposal, equipment selection

Continuous processing lines, winding and unwinding of product

We offer technical advice to end customers on the purchase, implementation and monitoring of projects. carried out at their facilities by other machinery manufacturers involving automation, we help to define the requirements and specifications of the project, analyse the offers received technologically and economically, and carry out the project management and validation of the installation in production. In other words, achieving the objectives set.

We analyse and look for effective solutions, where “know-how” is important.

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