Adaptive? Yes, thanks to track technology

B&R technology leverages the integration of different technologies into a single development environment and enables machines for time-to-market production.

By leveraging the integration of different technologies in a single development environment, B&R enables the development of adaptive machines that, by precisely “adapting” to the new rules imposed by the consumer goods market, must be able to optimize production almost in real time.

Among the technologies that support this transition, B&R’s innovative ACOPOStrak conveyor system allows products to be moved more efficiently, ensuring a very high level of quality and achieving maximum flexibility of operations.

Which translates into pushed customization, without long changeover times and high storage costs, in a context where even the smallest batches are produced with the speed and economic efficiency typical of mass production.

Magnetic levitation productivity

ACOPOS 6D represents the evolution of track systems and creates new standards of flexibility through magnetic levitation, which allows products to be moved freely through an open production space.

In fact, each product can be lifted, lowered, weighed, tilted, and rotated as it moves along its own path within the system, which is then optimized for on-the-fly changeovers while maintaining a minimal footprint and full customization capability.

In fact, ACOPOS 6D determines a new concept at the process level, integrating seamlessly with robot operations and increasing the work surface in a simple and intuitive way.

Perfect robotic integration

For each station along the system or in the machine itself, Machine Centric Robotics is the best production ally: by turning into a software function like any other within the PLC/PC, it enables improved robot control. The solution thus ensures the synchronized operation necessary for almost all applications for which time needs to be optimized, such as those for picking, packing and palletizing. The MCR thus simplifies the programming process through integration in Automation Studio, a single coding environment for all devices.

Bottom line

B&R technology enables innovative design, completely changing the point of view and putting the focus on machine performance to achieve brilliant process results and cost reduction.