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Siemens and SuperTrak CONVEYANCE announced a new strategic collaboration to maximize product range and machine throughput and shorten cycle time for machine building and manufacturing customers. The companies will partner to offer the market a smart conveyance system that can be installed as a transport technology on production machines. The carriers are powered by linear motors and move flexibly between stations during the production process.
The SuperTrak HORIZON3™ closed-loop magnetic transport system enables high performance, cost-effective, and space-saving machine designs for manufacturers. By combining the mechatronic system with Siemens’ Simatic controller and motion-control functionalities of the TIA Portal, all components work together seamlessly to help machine builders achieve optimal conveyance solutions.
Combining Siemens’ hardware and software solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio with the SuperTrak CONVEYANCE system yields a fully integrated, demand-oriented conveyance solution. The closed-loop linear transport system offers a variety of layout options. It is designed for smaller payloads and products and can carry up to three kilograms per shuttle. The carrier pitch is reduced to a minimum size of 50 millimeters, allowing objects to be handled at high speed in a much closer range to achieve high throughput numbers, which are required by packaging customers.
Connecting the SuperTrak CONVEYANCE platform with the Siemens TIA Portal and integrating it in the Simatic S7-1500T controller allows users to easily implement synchronized motion tasks with additional motion-control axes by using real-time communication. Each shuttle can be controlled independently through the use of technology objects in the TIA Portal. Technology objects enable different motion sequences, such as grouping of multiple shuttles or clamping a product between two shuttles for a filling process.
A 3D simulation and animation of the system’s production process and shuttle workflow provides machine builders with valuable insights into the ideal layout of the system, required shuttle numbers, and throughput figures.
According to the partners, the SuperTrak CONVEYANCE system with Siemens automation can help machine builders and manufacturers increase their productivity and product quality, while simplifying and reducing engineering effort.