Automation and controls

Schneider Electric returns to SPS in order to continue valorizing its smart manufacturing solutions, while at the same time expanding the range of concrete opportunities operators stand to benefit from when they adopt digital technology as a platform for innovation on every level.

Rockwell Automation’s cloud-based platform provides intuitive access to machine data.

Control Techniques (a Nidec Corporation company) will be presenting at SPS its new range of Unidrive M750 servo-drives (07. Nm - 51 Nm with 153 Nm peak/1.5 A - 16 A with 48 A peak), which guarantees high performance and flexibility in an extraordinarily small package.

The six divisions of the WITTENSTEIN Group develop highly dynamic mechatronic drive solutions, from precision gears  to rotary and linear servoactuators, from brushless micromotors to solutions for intralogistics, such as iTAS®, the first fully scaled and modular drive system for automated guided vehicles.

Servotecnica announces a new series of Tecnotion QTR torque motors.

Sipro Srl, which has been developing motion control solutions and producing numerical controls for over 30 years, has announced major innovations to its packaging products.

Thanks to its strategic position in the Food&Bev area achieved with world-class customers, Rockwell Automation presents specific solutions for the sector, which not only confirm “data culture” as the basis of the principles of Industry 4.0, but represent an incentive for OEMs and end users to create a truly connected enterprise.

Some of the world’s most important ICT and industrial automation suppliers - gathered by Messe Frankfurt Italia Srl to support the next edition of SPS Italia - took part in the round table discussion “Industrial software in the age of 4.0” in Milan last December.  The event proved a valuable opportunity for exploring fields of application and the benefits of using advanced software solutions. …

A vision system and Omron Delta robots guarantee excellent performance for a multi-color sweet bell pepper packaging installation at Combilo, with productivity exceeding conventional lines by as much as 30%. The protagonists and the results achieved.

No simple path but a highly stimulating one that undertaken by Forpac in order to develop Styron, a highly innovative technological project that looks at the world of packaging with an eye to eco-sustainability, and one for which the firm has chosen SEW-Eurodrive for its automation solutions.

All-Italian excellence automated by Siscodata using Comau robots.

Corrosion protection is essential in manufacturing processes where cleaning and hygiene are of great importance. WITTENSTEIN’s Corrosion Resistant and Hygienic Design® (the latest EHEDG certified) components ensure maximum levels of hygiene and sterile automation in the food or pharmaceutical sector.

Technology (on the cutting-edge), a philosophy (of integration), expertise (in human resources), relations (with the market): these are the assets on which B&R has built a 30-year history of commitment to a culture of automation in Italy. The secrets to this success, as told by various voices. Luciana Guidotti

The Balluff group, specialists in sensors and automation, has extended its own digital knowhow with the purchase of two companies: the ISS innovative software services GmbH (Stoccarda) and Matrix Vision GmbH (Oppenweiler).

Completing the portfolio of the rotary servomotors and servoactuators of the cyber® dynamic line series, the new WITTENSTEIN cyber motor linear actuators have a design optimised for high dynamic industrial applications, with low bulk.

SEW-EURODRIVE’s proposals for the beverage industry include a packing and unpacking solution which enables the transportation of products via dynamic handling without stressing the machines.

The outstanding solutions offered by Elabora* include ProdWare, an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) platform that offers procedures for planning and monitoring production, quality and CRM, as well as for managing any type of business.

Automatic format changeover and flexibility for PFM’s D-series packaging machine: objectives achieved with the help of Siemens.

Among the WVL (wireless local area network) solutions proposed by JVL - a manufacturer of motors with integrated electronics, represented on the Italian market by Servotecnica - we point to the motion controller MACC00-EW4.

A leader in energy and automation technologies, ABB Robotics, presents Connected Services, an advanced package of services developed to guarantee robot availability and optimize performance of robotized systems.