Taact : Machine Control Integration Produces Savings

March 29, 2010 - PRLog -- Taact : http://www.taact.co.in

Motion control is benefiting from integration with control technology. The goal is to bring motion data into the control system, so machines are easier to program. The result is to ability to use smaller machines, smaller and more efficient motors, and the ability to change machine configuration on the fly. Plant operators are also deploying simulation technology to work out the bugs and make adjustments to the machines that allow for quick changes from product to product.

One of the advantages of combining motion control with the overall control systems is that operators can make machine adjustments without deep knowledge of motion programming. ?Demanding motion-control applications that require high-performance precision can be fully tested out with their phase compensation feature estimated, so the programmer does not need special knowledge of the system components to do it,? says Bill Faber, senior manager, application engineering, Motion Control Division, at supplier Yaskawa Electric America Inc., Waukegan, Ill.

Using integrated automation to run machines also allows machines to do more. Grenzebach Corp., in Newnan, Ga., builds high-speed stackers, including a machine that stacks glass on a float glass line. Float-glass stackers have long been plagued by slow throughput and displacement that causes breakage. Yet it?s an important production stage for machine operation, as this is the most labor-intensive part of glass production. ?Our customers have been demanding a better solution for stacking the many different glass sizes that they manufacture,? says Gerald Haas, technical director at Grenzebach.


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