Smart Automation and Smart Services

The spe­cial­ist for automa­tion and inno­v­a­tive elec­tric dri­ve tech­nol­o­gy, Baumüller, will present its wide range of Indus­try 4.0 solu­tions at the Han­nover Messe from April 23–27, 2018. In hall 14, stand H12, the experts will use demon­stra­tive exhibits to show the advan­tages of sim­u­la­tions, wiz­ardguid­ed com­mis­sion­ing, pre­dic­tive main­te­nance and intel­li­gent process monitoring.
At this year’s Han­nover Messe, in addi­tion to sys­tems and com­po­nents, the com­pa­ny will present a wide range of ser­vices, cov­er­ing con­sul­ta­tion and engi­neer­ing ser­vices for mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing and machine oper­a­tors, as well as com­plete ser­vice through­out the entire life cycle of machines and sys­tems with its dif­fer­ent sub­sidiaries. In this way, vis­i­tors to the trade fair stand can find out about the design of new dri­ve sys­tems and the opti­miza­tion of exist­ing dri­ve sys­tems as well as learn about the wide range of train­ing ses­sions on offer and the lat­est tools and soft­ware solu­tions. In addi­tion, experts will present cur­rent ser­vice con­cepts from the field of Indus­try 4.0.

Modular Design for More Flexibility

At the trade fair stand, the firm will show live how to opti­mal­ly link indi­vid­ual pro­duc­tion process­es with the right inter­faces. Using the exam­ple of an inter­linked sys­tem, the com­pa­ny will show how machines can be cou­pled so that sev­er­al steps occur in one process. The automa­tion spe­cial­ist equips entire machine mod­ules, from the motor to the soft­ware, which can then be linked to each oth­er via suit­able inter­faces or that can be inte­grat­ed into exist­ing sys­tems. The mod­u­lar struc­ture also con­tin­ues in the soft­ware. Users can acquire indi­vid­ual pre-pro­grammed func­tion­al mod­ules or entire mod­u­lar libraries con­tain­ing val­i­dat­ed mod­ules, there­by short­en­ing devel­op­ment times and increas­ing the qual­i­ty of the software.
The com­mis­sion­ing wiz­ard is par­tic­u­lar­ly user friend­ly in the soft­ware area. This quick­ly and intu­itive­ly guides the user through the indi­vid­ual com­mis­sion­ing steps, such as the com­mis­sion­ing of ser­vo pumps in the injec­tion mold­ing area. Users there­fore ben­e­fit from a quick com­mis­sion­ing with a low­er prob­a­bil­i­ty of errors.

Optimized Time-to-Market with the Digital Twin

Mechan­i­cal engi­neers and users can short­en devel­op­ment times and opti­mize exist­ing sys­tems with the lat­est sim­u­la­tion ser­vices and com­po­nent mod­els. Using a so-called dig­i­tal twin, the machine per­for­mance can already be pre­dict­ed in the design process. In this way, the machine’s behav­ior dur­ing oper­a­tion can already be test­ed pri­or to com­mis­sion­ing and errors can be detect­ed and rec­ti­fied at an ear­ly stage. Mechan­i­cal engi­neers also receive all of the required project data about the dri­ve train already at an ear­ly stage of the devel­op­ment process and can thus design it accord­ing­ly. This short­ens the com­mis­sion­ing times and the prob­a­bil­i­ty of errors is great­ly reduced. In addi­tion, this elim­i­nates pre­lim­i­nary com­mis­sion­ing at the mechan­i­cal engi­neer’s loca­tion and the machines can be set up direct­ly at the cus­tomer’s loca­tion. The new vir­tu­al mod­els can not only be used to design dri­ve sys­tems, but they can also be used to opti­mize exist­ing sys­tems. Poten­tial for improve­ment can be iden­ti­fied and test­ed in the simulation.

Smart Services for Product Optimization

The com­pa­ny is pre­sent­ing addi­tion­al inno­va­tions in the smart ser­vices sec­tor. With BAUDIS IoT, the automa­tion spe­cial­ist is exhibit­ing an intel­li­gent solu­tion for opti­miz­ing process­es and for con­tin­u­ous­ly mon­i­tor­ing com­po­nents and machine states. BAUDIS IoT col­lects and ana­lyzes data, which is then record­ed, archived and eval­u­at­ed on site by the oper­a­tor or via a cloud at the com­pa­ny head­quar­ters or at an exter­nal ser­vice provider loca­tion. This data is ana­lyzed using algo­rithms, which are con­stant­ly evolv­ing and there­by becom­ing more intel­li­gent, in order to then be able to issue use­ful rec­om­men­da­tions for process opti­miza­tion or main­te­nance activ­i­ties to the machine oper­a­tor. BAUDIS IoT is man­u­fac­tur­er-inde­pen­dent and can be retro­fit­ted at any time. It uses big data to improve process­es and pre­vents long down­times and unex­pect­ed ser­vice cases.
The most impor­tant basis of smart ser­vices is the com­mu­ni­ca­tion of data. With Ubiq­ui­ty, the com­pa­ny offers a solu­tion here for secure remote main­te­nance. The high­est safe­ty stan­dards are imple­ment­ed with the soft­ware solu­tion, which is cer­ti­fied accord­ing to IEC 62443–3‑3. It is not nec­es­sary to use sep­a­rate hard­ware here, because the run­time envi­ron­ment is already pre-installed on the Win­dows-based Baumüller oper­at­ing pan­els. It is there­fore only nec­es­sary to pur­chase the cus­tomer domain once. In addi­tion to the nec­es­sary soft­ware solu­tions, the com­pa­ny offers con­sul­ta­tion and ser­vices in the field of remote main­te­nance, diag­nos­tics and net­worked pro­duc­tion. With its sub­sidiaries Baumüller Reparatur­w­erk and Baumüller Anla­gen-Sys­temtech­nik, the com­pa­ny brings its long-term expe­ri­ence in ser­vice, mon­i­tor­ing and the opti­miza­tion of motors to the table.
Com­pact with Decen­tral­ized Dri­ve Tech­nol­o­gy In the com­po­nent sec­tor, the firm will present inno­va­tions from the fields of con­trol units, con­vert­ers and motors to trade fair vis­i­tors this year. The com­pa­ny is focus­ing here on the top­ic of decen­tral­ized dri­ve tech­nol­o­gy for mobile and tra­di­tion­al indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions. The firm offers numer­ous advan­tages in sys­tem design to machine and vehi­cle man­u­fac­tur­ers with its var­i­ous decen­tral­ized dri­ve solu­tions. If con­vert­ers are not posi­tioned cen­tral­ly in the con­vert­er, but rather near to the motor or direct­ly at the motor, this often results in sig­nif­i­cant space sav­ings and less wiring effort. In addi­tion, decen­tral­ized solu­tions counter the trend of machine mod­u­lar­iza­tion. For exam­ple with its pow­er­MELA dri­ve sys­tem, which is a joint project with Sen­sor-Tech­nik Wiede­mann, the firm offers a decen­tral­ized dri­ve sys­tem that is specif­i­cal­ly opti­mized for use in mobile com­mer­cial vehi­cles and work machines. Tried-and-test­ed decen­tral­ized con­cepts are also avail­able for tra­di­tion­al mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing with the b maXX 2500 and the DSDI small ser­vo motors.

Product Highlights

The ser­vo motors of the DSH1 series were devel­oped for appli­ca­tions that require max­i­mum pre­ci­sion. Thanks to an extra-low cog­ging torque, the lat­est deriv­a­tive of the ser­vo motor prod­uct range achieves an extreme­ly good con­trol qual­i­ty, mak­ing it par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­able for appli­ca­tions that require a high lev­el of run­ning smooth­ness. The DSH1 ser­vo motors are avail­able in the sizes of 45–100, cov­er­ing a speed range of up to 5000 rpm.
With the mul­ti-axis con­troller b maXX 5800, b maXX is pre­sent­ing a com­pact solu­tion for the con­trol of up to six dri­ve axes. The con­troller can be freely con­fig­ured by the mechan­i­cal engi­neer, i.e. it can be equipped with exact­ly the right indi­vid­ual axis per­for­mance. The com­pact sys­tem reduces the wiring effort and pro­vides faster com­mu­ni­ca­tion, since dead times from the field­bus com­mu­ni­ca­tion from one con­troller to the oth­er are elim­i­nat­ed. New devices are also avail­able with the tra­di­tion­al mod­u­lar sys­tems where the axis units b maXX 5300 are now suit­able for peak cur­rents of up to max. 430 A and there­fore are also suit­able for sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er nom­i­nal cur­rents up to approx­i­mate­ly 180 A. In the area of con­trol tech­nol­o­gy, the firm is pre­sent­ing scal­able and ver­sa­tile solu­tions for all types of pro­duc­tion sys­tems with its HMIs and the box PCs b maXX PCC-04. A large num­ber of inter­faces for the PCs and dif­fer­ent ver­sions of the HMIs allows for a flex­i­bly link­able and scal­able machine design. Due to the inte­grat­ed Ether­CAT mas­ter and its expand­abil­i­ty, the indus­tri­al PCs can be used either as a mas­ter or con­trol cen­ter com­put­er or it can be incor­po­rat­ed as a slave into exist­ing Eth­er­net-based sys­tems. The HMIs are avail­able in three dif­fer­ent designs and impress above all due to the inte­grat­ed secure remote main­te­nance Ubiquity.
Baumüller at the Han­nover Messe 2018: hall 14, stand H12