Automation of pressing lines, body presses and conveyor systems present a three-fold challenge. Key issues in press shop automation are:

From manufacturing steel strips to assembling the body, ensuring efficient production means providing the right foundation for your conveyor system. After all, your goal is to supply downstream operations continually and keep waste to a minimum.

Our cross-industry automation platform Totally Integrated Automation provides standardization and modularization throughout all press shop automation processes. It delivers communications throughout the press shop automation chain and enables successful integration of components from other manufacturers.

Each step is executed quickly, precisely and optimized for the next process.

Key point communication

The productivity of automated press lines or large presses is directly related to how well their automation components can communicate with each other. In other words, one key to productivity lies in the smooth interaction of the controllers and drives with the distributed I/O, operator control and monitoring systems. And to ensure that you’re at the cutting edge when it comes to safety, too, all of our systems are already compliant with Cat. 4 safety requirements.

The SIMATIC NET communications system makes the components' team play perfect – for example, between the SIMOTION and SINAMICS drive components, the controller components from the SIMATIC family, and the plant-wide operator control and monitoring system WinCC flexible. The requirement on an accurate alignment of all machine elements in the press shop is very high. PROFINET with isochronus real time (IRT) is applied between the single press segments. Thus the reliable and synchronous co-ordination between feeders and press is assured.

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Our concept for press shop automation