Converting – unwinding, cutting, stamping, sealing, laminating, printing, coating, crosscutting, winding, … – many functions that are used in a broad range of industrial sectors. Sectors such as paper production, the printing industry, the manufacture of cables and wires and the textile and packaging industries, to name but a few.

Siemens is offering complete, standardized drive and automation systems that are capable of performing all of these tasks. These range from an extensive spectrum of motors (asynchronous and synchronous motors, torque and linear motors, reluctance motors) to single-axis and multi-axis drive controllers, from simple vector converters to highly sophisticated multi-axis systems with integral motion controller, SIMOTION Motion Control system, safety controller and bus system up to the market-leading SIMATIC S7 automation controller in variants 300, 400, 1200 and 1500. The portfolio is rounded off by a large selection of operator panels and other system components such as filters and reactors.

But it is precisely those highly technological standards that different sectors demand of converting functions that are fulfilled in many cases by the technology functions included in the Converting Toolbox developed by Siemens.

The fully operational, tested standard functions integrated in the Siemens Converting Toolbox can be used to reduce the amount of time and money that need to be invested in all phases of the machine lifecycle.