Machinery Update July / August 2020
The July / August 2020 issue of Machinery Update.
The July / August 2020 issue of Machinery Update.
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42 MACHINERY UPDATE JULY/AUGUST <strong>2020</strong> www.machineryupdate.co.uk<br />
Feature: Name Automation, here robotics & vision systems<br />
It’s ideal for flow wrapping, cartoning and FFS<br />
New linear motion<br />
control system<br />
is more flexible<br />
Control platform<br />
for tomorrow…<br />
Phoenix Contact’s PLCnext has unlocked the<br />
door to the beneficial Linux operating system<br />
To meet the needs of food and beverage<br />
manufacturers to handle ever more types<br />
and varieties of products at increased<br />
throughputs, Rockwell Automation has<br />
introduced the iTrak 5730 small-frame In the last 30 years, deterministic<br />
intelligent track system.<br />
PLC Programming within a PLC CPU<br />
Rockwell says the system uses<br />
has largely been at the mercy of<br />
independent cart technology to support IEC 61131-3 programming language.<br />
smart, flexible and efficient machines.<br />
This is not to say that other languages<br />
Independent cart technology is<br />
and techniques (C++, C#, Opensource,<br />
designed to offer many benefits over etc) cannot and have not been utilised<br />
traditional gear, chain and belt conveyors, in control systems, but this has had<br />
including unlimited machine flexibility, to involve separate compilers and the<br />
better traceability and increased uptime. arduous management of separate CPU<br />
By using magnetic propulsion, the<br />
resources to achieve true determinism<br />
individually controlled carts can quickly within a system.<br />
start and stop with high precision, which However, Phoenix Contact’s latest<br />
reduces machine wear and is energy control platform, PLCnext, has unlocked<br />
efficient. Changeovers are also managed the door to this with its Linux operating<br />
quickly at the touch of a button.<br />
system. The PLCnext Runtime runs on<br />
This new system has the smallest the Linux operating system, but,<br />
footprint within the company’s<br />
importantly, the PLCnext Runtime has<br />
independent cart portfolio. It has a 50 mm access to the Linux operating system.<br />
minimum pitch that makes it ideal for This means PLCnext allows high<br />
primary packaging applications.<br />
level languages (for example C++, C#,<br />
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combined with traditional IEC 61131-3<br />
languages (FBD, STL, SFC, Ladder) and<br />
compiled on a common compiler.<br />
As a result, traditional IEC-61131-3 PLC<br />
code and high-level language programs<br />
can be run deterministically on the same<br />
CPU and even combined in the same task.<br />
PREWRITTEN APP DOWNLOAD<br />
It also allows the ability to download<br />
prewritten ‘Apps’ from the PLCnext<br />
AppStore to the controller, either as<br />
an entire complete application solution<br />
or as a service for the application program.<br />
This means end user companies,<br />
system integrators and machine builders<br />
can now future proof their businesses for<br />
years to come by having the traditionally<br />
trained IEC-61131-3 engineers of the<br />
present passing their knowledge and<br />
practical commissioning skills to the next<br />
generation of programmers, says Phoenix.<br />
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