The team from ProSoft Technology helped design the architecture for the project and provided calculations to Comprex. Discussions between Comprex and representatives from Rockwell Automation and local distributor RAControls led the machine builder to ProSoft Technology’s wireless solutions. The equipment already in use for the application included a Rockwell Automation® CompactLogix™ 1769-元6ERM, PowerFlex® 525, and Kinetix 300. Other options were to slow the process down to a speed at which the rotating portion did not interfere with the necessary communications use slip rings or redesign the mechanical machine so that it would have cable control on the process.
Other wireless solutions the company had tested so far were not quite up to the task.
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The company manufactures machines used in cable production.Ĭomprex’s goal was to have full control over the rotating portion of the machine, with continuous wireless connections. The machine builder, Comprex, was trying to boost the reliability of the communications. After each cable has been successfully twisted, it’s moved to the coating portion of the application.ĭowntime in any application like this one can be financially disastrous, so ensuring that the machine is running efficiently is important. After eight hours, the machine has put together more than 14 kilometers of Ethernet cable. The four pairs of cables are then twisted together and bent on the drum. Starting with eight wires, the machine twists them off into pairs. At the main point in the application, one machine is manufacturing twisted cable. It’s a carefully considered process: Ethernet cables are produced in a Bitner facility in Poland. Wireless radios provide the reliability that a rotating machine needs
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