Description
For a machine builder, the control system is the part of the machine that determines how it feels to use — and how long commissioning takes.
Control concept
Before any code is written: what are the stations, what has to be interlocked against what, what happens on an emergency stop, and how does the machine recover afterwards. Recovery is the part most often left until commissioning, and it is the part that costs the most time when it is left that late.
Drives and motion
Servo axis configuration, homing strategies, cam and gearing where the application needs it, and drive parameter sets that are documented rather than left in the drive. Integration over the network the machine already uses — PROFINET, EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP — rather than a mixed approach that only the original engineer understands.
Safety
Safety circuits designed around the risk assessment and the required performance level, implemented in a safety relay or a safety controller as appropriate, and documented so the CE file has something real behind it. Safety logic is kept separate from the process program, always.
Retrofits
Rebuilding the control system on a mechanically sound machine is often the cheapest capacity you can buy. We handle the survey, the new control concept, the drawings and the software, and work with your panel builder or ours.
