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Preassembled energy supply system for the automationIn examples from the logisitics for the meat processing industry, a specialist for the automation of pharmacies, as well as an automatic raw material feeder system, the individual advantages of preassembled energy supply systems are very clear.
The company Dörfel KG based at Fellbach near Stuttgart has been using igus® energy supply systems with great success in their products for the storage and handling technology in the meat processing industry. The ReadyChain® system shows off its strength in the product sector of the storage and retrieval units for high-bay warehouses for sometime now. The handling of the long travel and the insertion of the cables invariably led to defects in the past. By the preassembly, potential weak points can be reduced to an absolute minimum. The standardization came to Dörfel as well. The complete facility is composed of building blocks. The filling of the energy supply thereby remains the same; just the chain length varies.
Initially there was skepticism around the topic "preassembly" due to the numerous cables. Today it is difficult to imagine another method; the concept is proven and tested every day. The stoppage risk of the plant is minimized. The energy supply systems are duly available. At Dörfel, the economic advantage was most convincing, as the installation time of three days was reduced to an unbeatable four hours.
The company Mach4 based at Bochum focuses on the automation of pharmacies - a future market in Germany. Sought-after downtown space is expensive, ground plan and structure of the sales areas vary strongly. The system for handling medicines must therefore be extremely compact and individually implemented.
With its high performance, ready assembled energy supply systems, igus® contributes to the good technical data of the plant and at the same time minimizes installation expenses. The complete program is thereby construed for high requirements: 19,000 products on average, a travel speed of 4 m/s and an acceleration of 2.5 m/s², everything in up to 13 m travel and about 600 to 2,000 infeed and outfeed procedures daily. To keep the handling straightforward and to create space for the medicines, the design advantages, which is primarily the compact modular system as well as the narrow bending radii, are completely utilized. "ReadyChain® functions very smoothly in this application - almost a million cycles per year anyhow.
The processing of sensitive bulk materials under hygienic conditions requires much experience. To meet the high demands on all plant components, the AZO in Osterburken on the one hand uses only vendor parts of market leaders. On the other, the company follows a clear strategy for the optimization of quality and minimization of costs. As a result, the central plant components such as units for weighing, measuring, feeding or mixing are available only in modular form. At the beginning of this development, the problems piled up: Supply chains and cables of different suppliers must be coordinated. The cables could not cope with the loads, resulting in core breakages and "corkscrewing". For this reason ready assembled energy supply systems are used for this today. As an export-oriented concern, the UL certificate for the cables was furthermore important for AZO. Self applications in the explosion-risk area can be implemented through Atex certified energy supply systems. To save the expensive space in the plant construction, the company utilizes in particular the small bending radii of the energy supply systems. At AZO, the multifaceted advantages of the preassembled energy supply systems have full effect. Cost saving arise from the fixed delivery date, avoiding storage costs, which minimizes the capital formation. The company igus as system supplier assumes the overall technical responsibility While the employees in early days were engaged for long to insert the cables, today the ready energy supply systems are delivered promptly and directly to the installation site. In case of potential problems, igus® also offers support on site.
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