Handling solutions
Products need to be customized, produced in smaller batch sizes, and reach the market more and more quickly. At the same time, product quality has to remain the same or increase even as cost pressures grow. Innovative machine concepts are needed to allow manufacturing companies to meet these challenges. Handling solutions play an important role here – solutions that set new standards in terms of performance, and can be flexibly and rapidly implemented on an integrated automation platform. With the Digital Enterprise solution portfolio, you are on the safe side.
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The systematic path to the optimal handling solution
Whether for palletizing, press transfer, or high-speed pick and place, entire production lines can be implemented on the basis of SIMATIC and SIMOTION. Our scalable offering of handling solutions from the Digital Enterprise portfolio meets a wide variety of automation requirements.
Perfectly tailored on the basis of standards
From standard solutions for all common applications to individualized solutions to meet your very specific needs, we support you from project planning to commissioning with the right engineering tools, products, and services.
Industry applications
Our solutions for SIMATIC and SIMOTION already cover a majority of the applications on the system side. Special industry-specific requirements, such as fully automatic synchronization on conveyor belts, are covered by a modular library concept.
Packaging
The constantly growing variety in packaging requires maximum flexibility and productivity.
Integrating powerful handling systems into the packaging line on a controller platform reduces the number of interfaces. This reduces the time and effort needed for engineering, so a shorter time to market is possible.
User-friendly solution for any task
The technology CPUs of SIMATIC S7-1500 Advanced Controllers offer an extended range of motion control functionalities. The result: one engineering, one controller, one communication system for standard automation, safety, and motion control technology.
Handling applications using SIMATIC technology
SIMATIC S7-1500 technology CPUs with the kinematics technology object provide functions for controlling kinematics.
Convenient engineering
- Predefined kinematics: Thanks to standard kinematics, handling mechanisms can be configured efficiently with graphic support.
- User-defined transformation: Allows you to easily integrate your own kinematics.
- Configuration with graphic support: Kinematics, coordinate systems, tools, and zones are intuitively parameterized via screens with 3D visualization.
- Function blocks according to PLCOpen: Kinematics functions are programmed in the familiar PLC environment.
- Engineering in the TIA Portal: permits complete access to the entire digitalized automation
- Kinematic trace: The motion of the machinery in displayed as a tracer path in 3D visualization.
Maximum freedom for more flexibility
By combining the motion control system SIMOTION with the drive family SINAMICS S120, Siemens offers the optimal platform for demanding motion control applications. Integration into the Totally Integrated Automation Portal (TIA Portal) with SIMOTION SCOUT TIA allows seamless, efficient engineering from the controller to the HMI.
SIMOTION Handling Toolbox
With our SIMOTION Handling Toolbox, we offer you the right modular solutions for any handling task.
For precise contour movements like those required for gluing processes, it’s also possible to use G-code.
All common kinematics are already provided by the system and simply need to be parameterized by the user via appropriate screens.
