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No.172

The cover shows an artists

imression o a concet or a

robot, develoed at a worksho

or cstomers. The reslt: a delta

robot with OLED instant messaging,

adative ositioning, holistic

3D-simlation and oor-activated

commnication. Will it be realistic?The tre will tell.

B listening, wondering,

exloring and learning, we gain

insights that lead to ctting-edge

soltions or the next generation o

machines.

We do things dierentl.

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OMRON & FuTuRE pROOF


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All-in-ne sluin end line packaging ea

Mesic has ond an ideal artner in Omron.

Sysac NX-seies I/o

The Ssmac Machine Controllergets the I/Os it deserves...

Single-cnlle in a

unkey packaging line

Mecaack, a secialist manactrer orimar and secondar ackaging.

Sysac Inegaed Saey

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No.174

Hiroki usi, Omron Eroe as Chie Exective Ocer



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Hiroki usi, who joined Omron Eroe as Chie Exective Ocer in Aril this ear, sas his ambition is

to bring next generation technolog into the Eroean market, tting Omrons know-how, exerience and sstems

within reach o Eroean machine-bilders. We soke with him abot his vision and ideas

or achieving these ambitions.

Wha did yu ask yusel when yu becae CEo?

M main interest is in heling Eroean machine-bilders to sta

strong in a changing world, becase ever cstomer I have soken

to sees the challenges ahead. We mst hel them to kee innovating

and redcing costs. That wa the can seize the oortnities in

develoing markets like China where or long-standing resence is

going to hel them while deending their local bsiness.

Hw can nex-geneain echnlgy help achine-buildes?

It all srings rom the ideas o the machine-bilders them-selves.Ssmac, or examle, was based on cstomer demands or a latorm

thats scalable and exible, and that enables the creation o ast,

ecient machines. Or vision is to hel or cstomers engineers to

trn their ideas into realit the smart wa.

Culd yu explain wha yu ean by uning ideas saly

in ealiy he sa way?

Machine atomation is all abot int-logic-ott technolog

so we make connectivit as simle, ast and reliable as ossible.

Machine-bilders onl need to ocs on the creative idea, mixing and

matching comonents withot worring abot hierarch or othercommnication isses. Were niqe in oering this seamless int

logic- ott combinations. O corse, i everthing comes rom

Omron it will be the astest combination available on the market.

Wha ae ons he cus pins?

We aim to rovide the most reliable sort in the bsiness, and

deliver it aster and more recisel than anone else. We can do

this b removing all nnecessar waste, taking ot elements that

dont add vale or or cstomers and their cstomers. As a logical

conseqence, this will imrove the seed o or resonse and bring

the cost down - these are all benefts that can be directl transerred

to or cstomers and hel make them more cometitive.

I yu wee an on cuse penial cuse, hwwuld yu ineac wih us?

Its an interesting qestion, becase we mst alwas think rom the

cstomers ersective. The frst oint is to realize how eas it is to

get access to or atomation exertise. On ever level, Omron is

the most oen atomation artner in Eroe. I I were a cstomer I

wold defnitel bring Omron in at the start o a roject, right at the

concet stage, becase I know or engineers can hel cstomers

to create soltions to secifc challenges. The are in the feld ever

da in all kinds o indstries. So, or examle, know-how gained on

an atomotive lant in Sweden might be exactl whats needed

or a ackaging machine in France. Machine-bilders can se thisexerience to sharen their ideas or tomorrows machines: it will

hel to make eqiment that s tre-roo, and that delivers the

cometitive advantage in todas globalized world.


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No.176

Flexibilit and versatilit are the two main drivers or the evoltion

o ackaging machiner. In articlar, the need to change ormats

qickl, or to handle dierent rodcts on the same line, has led

more innovative manactrers to develo new soltions in terms o

machiner laot, materials and technologies.

Italian manactrer Mesic is jst sch a coman. Secia-lizing

in the design and constrction o integrated end-o-line ackaging

machiner, Mesic looked at what the market was demanding,

and established artnershis with secialist sliers to meet

those demands. In articlar, it has investigated new materials and

innovative technologies that enable it to oer soltions that are more

ecient in terms o rodctivit and energ saving.

S, pack, bx, cde: he end--he-line ea

One o Mesics most recent advances is the develoment o an

end-o-line secondar and fnal ackaging soltion or acks o tea.

This is a dedicated line which incororates transort o the acks,

aggregating dierent rodct tes and ormats, and atomaticall

lacing them in dierent acking cases.

The ke isse is that the acks containing dierent avors o tea

each coming rom a dierent rodction line mst be roerl

and accratel laced into searate cases or desatch. So when

the dierent teas arrive at the Mesic end-o-line lant, the are frst

scanned b an Omron FQ vision sstem, which identifes the dierent

rodct tes. The data is sent via an Ethernet link to the ick-and-

lace sstem, which takes the acks o tea and ts them intodierent cases. The oen cases are frst marked with a Data Matrix

code, and then atomaticall sealed: fnall, a second Omron FQ-CR

vision sstem reads the code rinted on the case, to identi the

contents and ensre accrate desatch.

Develoed in collaboration with Omron, the end-o-line lant

benefts rom the know-how and rodct hilosohies o both

comanies. One o Mesics core strengths is its abilit to oer not

onl standalone machines bt also comlete lines. These all-in-one

sstems, born ot o the need to rn mltile rocesses within the

same area, are designed in co-oeration with the cstomer to take

into accont the secifc ackaging and the sace limitations. The

Mesic machines make se o innovative materials sch as carbon

fbre and have ewer moving arts. This makes them lighter, which in

trn enables the se o smaller motors to redce comonent costs as

well as saving energ to 60% comared with traditional machines.

Mespic, with headquarters in northeast Italy, has worked with Omron to develop

innovative all-in-one packaging solutions that end-users now demand, and that

successul machine makers strive to provide. A recent example is this end-o-line

plant or secondary and fnal packaging o tea.

Mesics all-in-onesoltion...



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7ComPEtENCE

All-in-one solution - showing the int section, storage and orming o the cases, the

loading and control area, and the rinting/closing areas

Pick-and-place - The loading section, where the ick-and-lace modle takes the acks

o tea and laces them inside the case

Controlled by our NJ controller - 4 carbon fber ick & lace sstems,

2 or case erecting, 1 or groing, 1 or case acking

... Versatile and exibleIdeal pane

Mesic has ond an ideal artner in Omron, which shares its

cstomer-ocsed ideals. Francesca Gaetani, packaging project

Leader at Omron Electronics Ital, exlains that Or atomation

hilosoh was to rovide a soltion based on the new NJ controlleron an EtherCAT network. This architectre allows s to take a niqe

aroach in meeting diering reqirements in terms o comlexit,

while ensring cost saving. We achieved this becase the NJ machine

controller - scaled in dierent sizes - handles the logic I/O as well as

the machine movements. The EtherCAT network - on which the entire

Ssmac latorm is based rovides the seed o data exchange

necessar to ensre alication exibilit.

In the case o the tea-ackaging soltion, the NJ501 machine

controller manages the conveors carring the acks o tea, as well

as servo drives that oerate the casing machine, the ick-and-lace

modle, and the aggregation o the dierent acks. Mesics case-

acking sstems are all to-loading, and se a Cartesian-axis gantr

with both motors fxed, to redce weight and thereore wear - on

the moving arts.

Extensive and continos collaboration rom Omron has rovided

the exibilit and versatilit with which Mesic has been able to meet

the secifc and comlex needs o each cstomer. The technologhas delivered several cstomer benefts, inclding:

a method o consistent commnication

the same remote control nit oerating a large nmber o axes,

vision sstems, and delta robot I/O modles

Accrax G5 servo motors sed or the ick-and-lace modle, also

controlled b the NJ motion controller

Omron technical assistance dring develoment and ater

installation

Most imortantl, the collaboration between Mesic and Omron

has enabled the deloment o new technologies to meet new

objectives, and to oen new and increasingl cometitive

markets.


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No.178

In short

Wean resesto comromiseon qalit

Omron orsae soltion

Lean, Aqalectraahead ocometition

Wepan, De Lie in he suh

Hlland, is a ediu-sized business

eplying eigheen pesnnel, invlved

in elecechnical insallain and

panel building

Gert van Wensen, director o Wean in De

Lier, is an idiosncratic bsiness man with a

ver otsoken oinion on the rnning o a

coman and how to deal with emloees

and clients. As a ftter and anel bilder,

he knows that exibilit and seed are

imortant or man clients, bt he

reses to comromise on qalit.

n.e/tt_Wepan

Wih a unve abu 17 illin eu

and a sa 145 eplyees, Aqualeca

is ne he lages panel buildes in he

Benelux and pbably in Eupe

I wold be ling i I said the market or anel

bilders was booming at the moment, bt

we are still managing to hold or heads

above water, sas Tom Stringer, general

director o Aqalectra in Heerhgowaard.

Stringer is a keen advocate o lean man-

actring, which enables anels to be

rodced as ecientl as ossible. He

believes this is the onl wa to sta ahead o

the cometition.

n.e/tt_Aqualeca

N ne dubs he ipance

uncinal saey in den

auain syses.

Saet is a resonsibilit that all lant

oerators take seriosl becase o the

otential imact on ersonnel, sstems

and the environment i something goes

wrong. A sstem ailre or mal-nction that

is not detected immediatel can have dire

conseqences. The challenge is to fnd a wa

or lant oeration and nctional saet to

become more intimatel connected. Omrons

hilosoh as a vendor o atomation

soltions is that integrated saet resents a

new oortnit to deliver a seamless oer

that sans ints, logic and otts to bild

on the advantages o networked sstems.

n.e/tt_saey



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Ssmac: One Machine

Controller, One Connectionand One Sotware

Sysac, 1s annivesay

Its exactl one ear since the Ssmac control latorm was lanched.

Fll integrated nder the simle concet o One Control, One

Connection and One Sotware it met with instant sccess. It was

Ssmacs simlicit and reliabilit that sers areciated most and,

thanks to them, we are on target to achieve over 5000 Cpu sales. Last

ear we also said that this was the frst ste in a ten ears jorne

We are leased and thrilled to share with o the second ste. When

we sa it works IT WORKS! And when we sa we do WE DELIVER!

the CPU aily is gwing in peance and scalabiliy

The frst release - NJ5 Cpu targeted 16, 32 and 64 axes machines.

Within six months seed had been dobled and 64 axes control

cold be achieved in 1 ms instead o 2 ms. We also released a

new Cpu amil NJ3 line covering 4 and 8 axes with the same

nctionalit, bt with slightl lowered erormance. The NJ3 Cpu is

well ositioned to meet 80% o alications in terms o er ormance

and cost.

Kineaics ees PLC, in and visin

In Jl we lanched the NJ Robotics line. This integrates motion,

pLC, vision and the kinematic algorithms reqired or delta robots.

Continos ick & lace sstems comrising 8 robots and a dal

conveor line can now be controlled in less than 2ms ccle times,

with to 200 icking ccles er minte.

Saey wih ne swae and ne cnnecin cncep

Ssmac latorm now incldes smart saet nction thanks to the

new integrated saet soltion. The latter consists o a new saet

network controller and a new saet I/O (NX I/O). One connection

concet is realised throgh the se o Saet over Ethercat (FSoE)

laer, controller and I/Os are hsicall monted on the distribted

I/O rack. Hence sae and non sae I/Os can be mixed on the same I/O

block.. The ONE sotware concet is achieved b sing Ssmac Stdio

or confgration and rogramming. Needless to sa that it ll

comlies with IEC-61131-3 standard. The saet controller achieves

the highest saet and meets Categor 4 and perormance level (pLe)

according to the ISO-13849-1 and SIL3 according to IEC-61508.

Disibued NX I/o: sub-icsecnd accuacy

Based on a backlane bs rnning in snchronos and asnchronos

modes and sing time staming, or NX I/O distribted IO range can

read an int or set an ott with sb-microsecond accrac. NX

I/O is available with over 70 models o I/O nits. Frther models will

become available over the coming ear.

And he uue?

Ssmac is and will remain a ll integrated latorm, with the ocs

on seed and erormance or exible machine atomation. Or

develoment teams are continall imro-ving crrent sstems and

are also bs with new alication libraries.

Enjy Auain wih Sysac


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No.1710

Ssmac

One year ago, Omron

introduced the Sysmac

NJ-series controller, as the

basis o a new generation

o Machine Control

Systems.

A new geneain I/os

Not jst seed in rogram exection, bt also seed o alication develoment,

with a ll integrated rogramming, simlation and trobleshooting environment.

Direct access to all variables and nctions or seqence control, motion control

and machine vision rom Ssmac Stdio hels o. Simli or engineering work,

redcing the chance o errors and imroving modlarit and maintainabilit.

In modern machine control, achieving a high exection seed means nothing

withot accrac and reeatabilit. using the distribted clock nction o the

EtherCAT machine network, the timing o Ssmacs motion control is accrate and

redictable to within a microsecond. The same deterministic behavior is now also

sorted b the new Ssmac NX-series I/O sstem.

tiing is key

Ssmac NX-series I/O has been deve-loed to meet reqirements that at frst ma

seem contradicting; to rovide a cometitive modlar I/O sstem to connect to

NX-series I/OTHE SySMAC MACHINE CO NTROLLER GETS THE I/O S IT DESERVES. ..



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11tECHNoLoGY

Omron controllers and varios oen networks, et oering

serior real-time behavior and ease o se. Additionall, the

sstem needs to sort the integration o saet nctions,

and be oen or tre additions.

To assre the reqired erormance level, Omron develoed

a new inter-connection bs, which oterorms an crrentl

available indstrial network. Besides having a high data

transer rate, this bs will roagate the distribted clock o

EtherCAT down to individal I/O nits. The distribted clock

allows an I/O nit to snchronise with the Ssmac machine

controllers rimar task ccle with less than 1 s jitter.

Additionall, int nits with timestam nction can be sed

to accratel determine seqence o events with nanosecond

resoltion.

Comlementar timestamed ott nits will let o control

the recise timing o digital ott seqences, with the same

nanosecond resoltion. used together, the total accrac

o timing rom in- to otts is onl limited b the ON- and

OFF-delas o the signals, i.e. well within a microsecond.

Chice in I/o unis

The digital I/O nits in the Ssmac NX-series are oered

in several variations, allowing the ser to make a trade-o

between I/O densit and ease o installation, or erormance

and cost. Ever model is available in sinking- and sorcing

version so o can alwas meet local market needs when o

exort or machines globall.


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No.1712

PROGRAM PROGRAMI/OI/O I/O PROGRAM

PROGRAM PROGRAMI/OI/O I/O PROGRAM

Standard digital I/O nits are available as 4-oint modles

which accet direct connection o 3-wire signals, roviding

24V ower sl to the sensor. These 4-oint nits are also

available as high-seed. Standard-erormance nits also

come in higher densities: 8-oint I/O nits can be sed or

2-wire signals, ticall dr contact switches. 16-oint nits

achieve the highest I/O densit in 12 mm width, in case the

sensors are slied with ower rom an external sorce.

Saet I/Os are available as 4-oint int nits, while saet

otts nits have 4 ott oints in jst 12 mm width, or 2

oints with a 2 A rating.

A ll range o analog I/Os is available, rom two to eight

signals er nit, or crrent, voltage, thermocole or RTD

signals. High-erormance models are available, oering 10

s conversion time er channel and 1:30000 resoltion. To

sort the motion control nctions o the Ssmac series, I/O

nits or encoder ints and lse otts are inclded in the

range. These can be assigned to motion axes in the controller

confgration.

Saey inegaed

Saet nctions are ll integrated in the Ssmac NX-series

I/O. The rogrammable saet control nit and its sae in- and

ott nits can be inserted anwhere in the I/O sstem. No

other secial hardware is needed. The saet commnication

NJ Controller

LATCH SYNC

SYNCHRONOUSINPUTS

SYNCHRONOUSOUTPUTS

NJ Controller



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is assed on transarentl throgh the EtherCAT interaces o the Ssmac control

network, making it eas to add saet nctions to an control sstem. Standard

control and saet control are both rogrammed in Ssmac Stdio, roviding eas

monitoring and reerencing o saet stats inormation in the normal control

rograms.

Design

All Ssmac I/O nits have the same height and deth (100x71 mm) while the

standard nit width is 12mm, or 24mm or some secifc nits. All I/O nits have

a detachable ront connector with sh-in te screwless terminals. I/O wiring

looms can be reared and installed searatel, signals can easil be disconnected

or testing and commissioning, and nits can be relaced withot re-wiring.

user-defned labeling and keing o the I/O connectors are rovided to revent

installation errors.

At the initial market release in Q1 2013, the Ssmac NX-series I/O will consist o

aroximatel 70 tes o I/O nits and sstem modles like ower eeds and

grond terminals, a saet IO controller, and the network interace nit or EtherCAT.

Bs interaces or other networks, and the described high-erormance I/O nits will

be released throghot 2013. From there on, there will be a stead exansion o the

Ssmac NX-series model range.

ssmac.e


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No.1714

Ssmac

Integrated Saet

The release o the Ssmac NJ Series Machine

Atomation Controllers was a decisive ste

towards the ll integration o logic, motion

and vision into or One Sotware latorm

(Ssmac Stdio), sing or One Machine

network (EtherCAT) and all ocsed on or

One Control Sstem (Ssmac NJ Controller).

Machine design and develoment are never

comlete withot nctional saet. The

develoment o a roer saet strateg is

essential to all machine design and shold

be taken into accont at an earl stage

as it can dramaticall inence lie ccle

costs, eseciall develoment times and

maintenance ccles.

Machines mst be designed to be

intrinsicall sae so, when a hazardos

sitation cannot be avoided throgh

conventional engineering - e.g. b

rotecting the moving arts - additional

measres mst be imlemented to reach

the reqired saet erormance. This is

where Ssmacs Integrated Saet soltions

make all the dierence.

The new NX Saet Controller has been

created sing state-o-the-art technolog

and is imlemented in the latest NX I/O

sstem. Nanosnx is new and innovative I/O

technolog, oering otstanding seed and

erormance, with nanosecond resoltion

delivered b EtherCAT networking which is

defning new levels o seed and accrac in

atomation.

The saet commnications laer is known

as Saet over EtherCAT (FSoE) and is sed

to transort saet data between an NX

Saet Controller and the NX I/O distribted

saet devices. The release o the NX Saet

Controller as art o the Ssmac Integrated

Architectre enables Omron saet sstems

to meet alications to Categor 4 and

perormance level (pLe) according to ISO

13849-1.


Omron Electronics is in one o the leading

global comanies in atomation saet. Or

broad rodct and services ortolio incldes

all necessar saet eqiment and services,

rom electronic saet relas like the G9SX

series to DeviceNet network controllers like

the NE1A series.


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No.1716

Sysac Sudi and IEC 61131-3 PLCpen Saey

pgaing

One o the benefts o advanced Saet Controllers

comared with classic hard-wired saet soltions is

the exibilit and resabilit o code. Omron NX Saet

Controllers are rogrammed according to the IEC 61131-3

standard and se the same Ssmac Stdio Integrated

Develoment Environment (IDE) sed or the rest o the

Ssmac devices.

Standards like IEC 61131-3 and pLCoen bring oenness

and sabilit that ensres end sers can avoid becoming

the risoner o a articlar brand. NX Saet Controllers

incororate pLCoen Fnction Blocks (FBs) that in

combination with Motion Control FBs make Ssmac one

o the most oen latorms on the market. Frthermore,

Ssmac Stdio allows the integration o NX Saet

Controller variables within the global variables o an NJ

controller. Ssmac Stdio IDE ths sorts a common

methodolog or hardware defnition, rogramming and

maintenance.

opeaing Pinciple he NX Saey Cnlle

The NX Saet Controller sorts sae logic in its local

NX backlane and in remote NX remote backlanes

b means o the NX EtherCAT coler (NX-ECC201).

Fnctional Saet Over EtherCAT (FSoE) ses the so-called

black channel or commnications which allows saet

data and non-saet data to be combined withot risk

in a single network. FSoE can achieve SIL-3, with the

robabilit o one ndetected error exceeding 100,000

ears!

Ssmac NJ Controller is the EtherCAT network master.

The NX Saet Controller establishes a connection-ID

mechanism with its associated NX devices. In this wa,

the NX Saet Controller manages the sae logic while the

NJ EtherCAT Master is resonsible or sae and non-sae

commnications. One interesting conseqence is that

NJ Controller has continos access to the FSoE data

and can, i necessar, se this in standard atomation

rocesses.

Benefs Sysac inegaed Saey.

The NX Saet Controller and distribted Saet I/O

can bereel laced on the NX-I/O bs. The integration



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into Ssmac Stdio simlifes sstem design, set and

maintenance, allowing machine bilders to ocs on

the imrovement o erormance and saet rather than

on sstem confgration. The combination o NX-Saet

and Omron saet comonents - rom saet switches

and sensors to motion devices with integrated saet

nctions brings great benefts to machine bilders

looking or a single sorce soltion.

ou cien

Ssmac NX Saet Controller series in combination with

new NX I/O sstem and Ssmac NJ Controllers contribte

to increased machine saet and imroved rodctivit

over the total machine lieccle. Omron is a global

One sto soltion slier who can oer not onl

comonents, bt also soltions and services like Int-

Logic-Ott or nctional saet in atomation.


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No.1718

SYSmAC specialiss

It is exactl one ear since SySMAC latorm was

lanched globall to the market. A ll integrated

latorm nder the simle concet o Onecontroller, One connection and One sotware.

On the other hand, over the ast ew ears, we

at Omron Eroe, have reocsed or bsiness,

arallel with Ssmac develoment, aiming to

rovide or cstomers with the best sort, the

new Ssmac latorm. Or Alication Engineers

are constantl imroving their knowledge with

intensive training on new technologies, rodcts

and alications. Omron Eroe now has more

than 700 feld and sales engineers in 19 contries

to add vale to machine bilders in terms o

advanced and integrated machine control.

Auain Cene: a glbal newk

cpeence cenes

Omrons commitment to the machine bilders

goes beond rodct and technolog, it alsoembraces advanced technical and alication

sort. These or global atomation centers are

now ll oerational. All the centers are globall

coordinated rom the Atomation Bu head-

qarter in Jaan.

the cuen Auain Cenes in he

wld:

ATC-Jaan located in Ksats, Jaan, alread

oened on the 1st o Agst o 2011

ATC-China located in Shanghai, China, alread

oened on the 3rd o Jne o 2011

ATC-uS located in Fremont CA, uSA, alread

oened on the 1st o Aril o 2012

ATC-Eroe located in Barcelona, Eroe to be

oened on the 30th o November o 2012



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Atomation Center EroeThe ke tasks o the Atomation centers is to rovide the best technical and alication sort or SySMAC latorm and all the devices

(sotware and hardware) arond it. The feld o exertise o the ATC incldes networking, sotware, saet, advanced motion control, robotics

and CNC.

Bacelna: he lgical hs place Auain Cene Eupe

Omron Eroe has its Motion Alication Center in Barcelona since 1999. This center hosts more than 40 exerts in sotware, hardware

and alication secialists. It is there where all the sotware and motion alication libraries are develoed. Thereore it was jst a matter o

continit to have the ATC in Barcelona. ATC will reresent a real cometence where cstomers can see, test and have a real lie exerience o

the most advanced technolog.

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Denis Oerther, in charge o the prchasing Deartment at

Mecaack, sees obvios benefts in otimizing line control:

A single platform reduces the number of components

and the wiring and programming times in the workshops.

It also reduces stock volumes, and the variety of spareparts needed.

Mecaack, a secialist manactrer o rimar and secondar ackaging machines

has recentl develoed a trnke ackaging line. Working in close cooeration with

Omron has enabled the coman to base its concet on a single line controller,

a strategicall imortant ste orward, with which Mecaack intends to satis

cstomer exectations both in its French home market and in the rest o the world.

Single-controller in a

trnke ackaging line



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A member o the prolast gro, French manactrer Mecaack

develos and manactres ackaging machines, inclding tra

sealing sstems, thermoorming eqiment, case orming and case

acking soltions. The have recentl integrated Cration Techniqe

(now called Idack) into the bsiness, strengthening their exertise in

secondar ackaging machines. The comans nine R&D engineers,

working in a 23-erson Research Deartment, add vale to the

coman, while Omron has been roviding exertise in seqentiallogic and motion control to Mecaack or more than 15 ears.

Bild a relationshi with asingle rojectA cplee unkey packaging line

These das or cstomers look or machines which can work at high

seed and with increased caacit, sas Benot Mort, resonsible

or Develoment at Mecaack. Bt the also want to bild a

relationshi with a single project Manager who can oer a global

soltion or both rimar and secondar ackaging. This is what we

have been working to establish or the ast fve ears.

Crille Coloigner, in charge o Mecaacks Atomation Research

Deartment, adds:

We have develoed rom being a manactrer o individal

machines towards becoming a slier o engineering soltions.

We owe this evoltion directl to the develoment o Omron

technolog.Benot Mort exlains that Mecaack has been working continall

on the reliabilit and oeration o a global ll-line concet, while

integrating third-art rodcts sch as metal detection sstems andlabelling machines: Were introdcing into ackaging lines notions

o rodction ecienc which are well known in the atomotive

indstr, while redcing rodct-ormat changeovers to the

minimm. Ever second means a lot to s!

Indusialized develpen

As art o this roject, one o Mecaacks objectives is to streamline

machine concetion, which will redce deliver times - among other

benefts. To achieve this, the coman is deloing Omrons Ssmac

latorm, which ts the entire line nder the same logic o control

and arameter setting. Man o or cstomers are in avor o this

rationalization, sas Serge pitois, prodct Manager at Mecaack,

althogh he notes that A single controller means a comlete change

in strateg.

the benef a single cnlle

Benot Mort adds that This is where the Omron team add their

exertise to or knowledge, and answer an qeries that might arise

on or side. Or artnershi with Omron allows s to achieve the

erormance levels that we had initiall set as an objective, which is

imortant with new technologies. yo cold look at this as a jointinvestment b Omron and Mecaack, and I do want to emhasise the

act that the Omron team is alwas ver reactive when we need hel!

ComPEtENCE

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mecapack is ging glbal

80 % o Mecaacks cstomers are in the ood and beverage sector, bt the coman also manactres

machines or the harmacetical, medical, and sl chain (secondar ackaging) sectors. Larger

ood manactrers and large or medim size sermarkets will also trn more and more to rimar

ackaging. One third o Mecaacks trnover resentl comes rom France, bt there is a strong desire

to develo the comans global activities, a strateg which can be sorted b Omrons extensiveinternational network.

According to Serge pitois, deloing a single controller sch as the Ssmac latorm is the onl wa

to create a comlete ackaging line which can meet exectations in terms o erormance, and o

retrn on investment and costs. Mecaack integrates a seqence o atomation rodcts and Delta-2

robots develoed internall, with motors and control b Omron - that ft into the single line-controller

concet. Ethernet connectivit means the controller can also commnicate with the mlti-articlated

robots sed in the case-acking stage.

This consistenc in the seqential nctions and motion control is mch areciated becase it allows

shorter ormat changeover times. It also allows remote maintenance and diagnosis o the comlete line

throgh a single commnication entr oint. These are signifcant benefts or both the end ser and

Mecaack.



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Clphn & Cnac

Cpyigh:

Publishe:

Back he uue:

the civilizain sae ki

Marcin Jakbowski bilt a tractor in six das. Then he told the

world how to do it: he made the designs, the bdget and an

instrctional video available ree online.

omron.me/SRGKT7

We invie yu!

I there is anthing that o wold like to share with s, lease do not hesitate and contact s at

[email protected] blog.omron.e

Kee asking, sta crios:Be an engineer!the on blg

Omron Eroe blished a new website on which we share what we exerience, working in the atomation indstr. yo can

exect to fnd behind the scenes stories abot the tre, machines, cool st, manactring, exerts rom the feld and the

innovations in or indstr. To give o an idea, below are two random articles. use or Laar a to read them immediatel on

or mobile.

A passin qualiy

Everone knows that qalit is imortant: its what kees

cstomers ha and what bilds and maintains brand vales.

Bt to reall dierentiate a bsiness, to set it aart rom other

machine makers, assion has to be more than mere words.

omron.me/Xh2qdE

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