In order to pack products like bottles, bags or other very small products like lipsticks into folding boxes, it is necessary to precisely coordinate a variety of steps and motional sequences, sometimes in a seconds cycle.
Crucial to success with applications of this type are the drive-based SIMOTION Motion Control System and SINAMICS, compact systems into which the necessary performance and functionality are integrated. The recently developed, tailor-made "Cartoner" software library is also essential to easy implementation.
- Simple, successful commissioning thanks to preconfigured, tested software elements
- Compatibility with all drives and encoder types reduces engineering costs
- All functions can be configured – programming has been reduced to a minimum – resulting in fast integration into the user program.
- Remote diagnostics, commissioning and configuring tools that are integrated into the uniform and scalable SCOUT engineering system reduce the servicing and configuring times.
The application:
- The library comprises four function blocks.
- Suction
- Ram
- Conveyor belt
- Product infeed
- These function blocks contain basic functions, automatic mode which can be configured in detail, and expansion functions in manual operation (return to initial state, jogging, homing)
- All functions can be configured – programming by the user has been reduced to a minimum – resulting in fast integration into the user program.
- The blocks are instantiatable and can be used in the project more than once.