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And cut! Cuts of high quality foam material. The Customer: The Albrecht Baeumer GmbH & Co. KG has been a leading manufacturer of machines and plants for the foaming industry for more than 60 years
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And cut!Cuts of high quality foam material • The Customer: • The Albrecht Baeumer GmbH & Co. KG has been a leadingmanufacturer of machines and plants for the foamingindustry for more than 60 years • The company offers special machinery for the cutting,converting and transport of polyurethane foams andsimilar materials • The Challenge: • Need of an automation system with high performance andcontrol accuracy to ensure cuts of a foam blockwith highest cutting quality (plane, consistent) • Synchronized coordination of many individual components(among others drives, preasure roller, cutting tools)
And cut!Cuts of high quality foam material • The Solution: • Compact and rugged PC-based automation solution asbase of all-automatic horizontal cutting machine BSV-S • Ready to run embedded bundle Microbox PC composed ofSIMATIC IPC427C and software controller SIMATICWinAC RTX • Connection to the company‘s network and remote accessfor maintenance thanks to existing Ethernet-interface • PROFINET as efficient network with connection to thedistributed I/Os SIMATIC ET200S and frequency converter • Data visualization via Simatic WinCC flexible softwarewith SIMATIC HMI MP277
And cut!Cuts of high quality foam material • The Customer Benefit: • Increased performance by 80 percent leads toincreased cutting quality and saving of materialsand failures thanks to an efficient, flexible andreliable PC-based solution • High degree of machine availability thanks to therugged embedded system and a comfortablediagnosis • Strong service support thanks to a direct access to the machines via VPN and a worldwide presence of Siemens • Optimal interaction of the Siemens components