PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2014

BOTTLING / FILLING 40 PETplanet insider Vol. 15 No. 04/14 www.petpla.net Rexroth IndraMotion: Pre-defined function toolkits reduce programming effort Letting the software take the strain As the market for liquid food and beverages products con- tinues to change with increasing rapidity, machine users in the beverage industry are increasingly demanding more flexible systems. This reinforces the trend towards more and more servo-drives in machines and the shifting of func- tions to software. Consequently, complexity is on the rise for the machine manufacturer. Rexroth now offers Open Core Engineering with pre-programmed function toolkits and new degrees of freedom for individual functions in its IndraMotion system solution. With its IndraDrive Mi cabinet- free drive technology, Rexroth is supporting the modularisa- tion of flexible machine concepts. Machine manufacturers can therefore reduce the engineering effort required for the automation process, thus shortening the time to market. programming effort. Active vibration damping of the intelligent IndraDrive servo-drives increases dynamics while sparing the mechanical system and preventing liquids from spilling over. This motion control increases productivity and automatically com- pensates for fluctuations in process parameters. The machine manufac- turer merely has to parameterise this prepared function. Bosch Rexroth claims that the FlexProfile adaptive system reduces the engineering effort needed for switching over to changed formats and recipes by means of soft- ware commands. This control function automatically establishes motion rela- tions between connected drives. The OEM only has to set parameters to increase the flexibility of machines. The fact that functions are increas- ingly implemented in software extends modularisation in the machine building sector to also create modular soft- Parameterising instead of programming Open Core Engineering integrates all the necessary software tools for efficient engineering. Rexroth has integrated its application experience in software in the pre-programmed function toolkits of its IndraMotion system solution. For example, “adap- tive systems“ adjust the machine to changed conditions without additional Rexroth IndraMotion in applications associated with bottling: pre-defined function toolkits and new degrees of freedom for individual software func- tions shorten the time to market for machine builders.