| Maximum Flexibility with Increased Productivity |
B&R will feature automation advances to maximize packaging performance, flexibility at PACK EXPO 2019, booth C-2058. B&R's ACOPOStrak intelligent track systems enable what has become known as The Adaptive Machine, representing the fourth generation of packaging machinery technology ? allowing cost effective mass customization. B&R’s new machine vision solution integrates directly into the machine controller and network rather than a separate vision system and features a powerful lighting capability
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| | ACOPOStrak enables human-track-Collaboration |
Manual workstations located along transport systems have traditionally relied on rigid intrinsic safety solutions that cannot be changed or switched off. Like traditional robots, such solutions remain slow and limited in force even when no humans are near the track. In contrast, collaborative ACOPOStrak workstations combine maximum operator protection with maximum productivity: safety functions can be activated and deactivated dynamically during runtime. Safely limited speed and force values can be adjusted on-the-fly based on shuttle payload. A safe setup mode enables the track to continue production even if an operator is close – boosting the availability factor of OEE. Learn more by watching a video on human and track collaboration here.
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| | Integrated Machine Vision: More than Embedded | |
With the world's first machine vision solution to be seamlessly incorporated into the automation system, B&R offers a truly unprecedented level of integration. The cameras, intelligent image processing algorithms and innovative lighting portfolio are an integral part of the B&R control system. View more about this intelligent machine vision solution here. | | Watch video→ |
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| | Why batch-of-one manufacturing is more profitable | |
Equipment is built to last and last. How can we justify replacing millions of dollars' worth of legacy machinery with new equipment designed to produce one custom unit at a time? Where's the profit in that? Read this report to learn how to benefit from the flexibility, efficiency, and increased savings of batch-of-one manufacturing. | | Read more here→ |
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| | Creating the Digital Future in Brownfield Plants | |
How a technique from the 1970s can be used to leverage well-recognized measurements such as Operational Equipment Effectiveness and Total Productive Maintenance to transform brownfield plants into digital ones. | | Read more here→ |
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| | Case Study: Adaptive Transport for Ultimate Production Effectiveness | |
Makro is a relative newcomer to the packaging machinery scene, having been launched about nine years ago. But management obviously has been paying close attention to emerging technologies that might be leveraged. Electronics Designer Simone Marcantoni puts it this way: “We’ve been watching ACOPOStrak coming out of development, so when B&R asked if we had any ideas about implementing it in our machines, the concept we came up with is C Leap.” | | Read more here→ |
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