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Festo SupraMotion 2024: SupraMotion 2024: Opening, closing, filling and weighing in the cleanroom. Festo SupraMotion 2024: Entering Clean Room: The contactless levitation module of SupraMotion moves the freeze-dry container into a symbolized clean room. Automated filling and weighing of freeze-dry containers in the cleanroom with SupraMotion from Festo Superconductor technology: Contactless working in the laboratory of the future Superconductor technology enables the contactless movement and handling of objects – ideal for high-tech industries such as laboratory automation or biotechnology. At the Hannover Messe, Festo presents a concept for the fully automated filling and weighing of freeze-dry containers in cleanrooms. Thanks to SupraMotion levitation modules and products from the Festo automation portfolio for laboratory applications, the highest standards of cleaning and cleanliness can be met. „Keeping processes in the laboratory free of contamination is not easy,“ says Michael Schöttner, Head of SupraMotion Projects at Festo. „The equipment used, for example test tubes or measuring devices such as scales, are particularly problematic. Taken from the dirty outside, they are prone to carry contaminations to the clean inside. We can largely rule this out with our SupraMotion modules, as they allow to transport and weigh without contact.“ In the exhibit, special disposable freeze-dry containers are filled automatically and the added mass is checked using a contactless scale. Products from Festo‘s LifeTech portfolio are used in combination with a levitation module from the „SupraMotion“ range. Altogether, this results in a reliable overall solution that makes cleaning simple and effective to meets the highest cleanliness requirements. The magnetic forces between the superconductor and the carrier on which the containers are transported allow levitation heights of 10 millimeters and more. Permeating though many materials, the levitation leaves plenty of space for separating walls enclosing sterile working environments. Movement of the carrier is possible from the exterior, as is weight control using a standard laboratory scale. This keeps most of the technology outside the cleanroom; contamination of all kinds is reduced to an absolute minimum. „With our concept, we show how to combine our innovative superconductor technology with our automation solutions for the life science sector and thus manage some of the most demanding challenges in laboratory automation,“ says Michael Schöttner. Opening, closing, filling and weighing in the cleanroom The contactless levitation module of SupraMotion moves the freeze-dry container into a symbolized clean room. A universally applicable, compact EHMD rotary gripper module, which was specially developed for laboratory automation, opens the screw cap of the container regardless of its thread pitch. It is then transported to the next station, where two VTOE dosing heads fill the container with liquid. These dosing heads work very precisely with a typical varia- www.reinraum.de | www.cleanroom-online.com NEWSLETTER | Edition EN 07-2024 page 16/28
tion coefficient of < 1% in the range of 10 to 1000 μl. The contactless scales integrated into the transport system allow the filling volume to be checked precisely at all times during the process. „With the SupraMotion modules and our products for laboratory automation, we are able to design innovative complete solutions for customers in the life science sector – precise, reliable and largely contamination-free thanks to contactless handling. Only Festo offers these solutions!“ says Marcus Kroll, Head of LifeTech Business Development at Festo. Upon request, interested potential users will receive a customized application according to their needs. About superconductor-based magnetic levitation Superconductors are materials with unique magnetic features. The superconductor used in SupraMotion applications can anchor the magnetic field of a permanent magnet to its bulk, creating a strong but invisible coupling keeping the magnet and superconductor at a fixed distance from each other – even through walls, in liquids or in a vacuum. Levitation gaps of 10 mm and more are possible. As long as it remains below its transition temperature, the magnetic memory of the superconductor stores the fingerprint of the magnet and thus its position, even if the two are separated. The technology is characterized by a low energy requirement independent of the levitation height and payload – the power requirement with the current coolers is between 15 and 80 watts, depending on the application. The levitation effect is maintained for up to 15 minutes in case of a power failure, does not require separate control technology and does not heat up surfaces or levitation modules. Festo SE & Co. KG D 73734 Esslingen BOY Machines celebrated a successful fiftieth anniversary at the NPE in Orlando The German machine manufacturer BOY can look back on a successful and well-attended plastics trade fair, the NPE in Orlando. With a total of six exhibits the specialist for injection moulding machines, based in Neustadt-Fernthal, Germany, impressed a large number of trade fair visitors with interesting applications at the booth of its American sister company BOY Machines, Inc. BOY Machines, Exton PA (BMI) has been a solid factor in the North American plastics industry since 1974. A representative selection of the BOY machine range was demonstrated to the trade visitors at the exhibition booth right at the main entrance to Hall West: from the new BOY XS E and the compact BOY 35 E VV injection moulding machine with integrated automation cell to the BOY 125 E with an efficient servo drive and 1250 kN clamping force. The performance and strengths of the various machines, the good automation options as well as the machine efficiency were perfectly presented on the very functional, bright and openly designed exhibition booth. Mrs. Helga Schiffer, Chairwoman of BMI‘s Board of Directors, was particularly impressed by the success of the NPE trade fair appearance. ‘We have participated in all NPE trade fairs from the very beginning,’ commented Helga Schiffer, ‘but this time the number of visitors clearly exceeded anything we have seen before and the discussions were of a high quality. The need for personal contacts and information after the long period of six years since the last NPE was clearly noticeable.’ A good example of the efficiency of the BOY injection moulding machines was the introduction of a production cell developed on the basis of the LR 5, which demonstrated the versatility of the BOY LR 5. In collaboration with a BOY 35 E VV insert moulding machine, an additional input terminal, the LR 5 handling device and another assembly automation, metal inserts were over-moulded into T-shaped handles, removed by the LR 5 and delivered to an assembly automation system. Here, four bits individually selected by the visitor were inserted into the plastic handle. The assembled set was then placed on a conveyor belt by the LR 5 and the visitor received a self-configured tool set. The compact BOY 35 E VV with sliding table attracted special interest by the visitors. BOY exhibited this machine for the first time in the USA. A particular ‘NPE eye-catcher’ was the BOY 60 E hybrid equipped with electromechanical injection and plasticising as well as an electromechanical ejector. Our injection moulding machine is completed with our proven servo-hydraulic two-platen clamping unit. It has turned out that this is often a much better option than the current purely electromechanical machines. The clamping unit of the BOY 60 E is cleaner in particular and therefore more suitable for clean room applications, it has lower energy consumption and the smallest footprint in its industry. Dr. Boy GmbH & Co. KG D 53577 Neustadt-Fernthal www.reinraum.de | www.cleanroom-online.com NEWSLETTER | Edition EN 07-2024 page 17/28
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