From traditional to electronics manufacturing, many companies are eager to introduce robots to lower labor demand while increasing productivity and production efficiency. To build robotic production lines involves many aspects. Issues like system integration, machine-to-machine communication, and information integration must be thoroughly considered.
"Robotic production lines take meticulous design of robotic movement and distributed control schemes so that all connected equipment and peripheral devices can be orchestrated for speedy and precise execution," said Joe Lin, GM of IoT Automation Solutions Business Group, NEXCOM.
Recently, a wet wipe company turns to NEXCOM to design an automated system comprising delta robots and EtherCAT master stations to coordinate PLCs, conveyors, sensors, gluing, and labeling equipment all together. The system is expected to reduce manpower by about thirty percent and to increase productivity to up to 1.5 packages per second.
Apart from conventional manufacturers, major automation obstacles for electronics companies are the failing data interoperability caused by diverse PLC systems. IoT gateways thus become crucial as they transcode fieldbus protocols, unifying each system so that data can be exchanged. Exchangeable data paves ways for not only on-site and remote monitoring but also big data analysis and decision making.
NEXCOM's EtherCAT Master interfaces are interoperable with over sixty PLCs, EtherCAT actuators, I/O and other slave devices from numerous brands. Partnered with local and international firms for numerous integrations, NEXCOM provides last-mile solutions to Industrial IoT.
To expand robotic applications, NEXCOM unveils Robot Package, providing 6-axis robots along with an open control platform. Different from proprietary systems, this platform enables manufacturers to leverage field know-how by writing control algorithms for their own man-machine coordination.
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Manufactures see automated production and man-machine collaboration as ways to secure productivity and to increase production efficiency
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