Packaging machinery control system development trend

Single-machine to connected production is becoming the future of the domestic packaging machinery manufacturers began to produce blow molding machines, this phenomenon represents a trend, packaging is no longer discrete production, in order to provide the entire plant delivery capacity, The connection of devices has become more important. From a technical point of view, this is to better provide the need for mechanical connectivity, hardware, and software consistency. From the customer's needs, turnkey engineering has become More important.

For a large number of productions, such as beer, cola, mineral water, milk, wire production can increase its production efficiency, and internationally renowned manufacturers such as Krones, SIG, and Trapack have already provided more than just equipment. The entire factory solution - in fact, the hardware is no longer so important, and they are improving the system of higher value-added, whole plant production management and optimization system software and solutions.

This figure of Krones shows the whole plant management system architecture. The data of each production unit such as machine status and batch control data is up to the upper level through the standard data bus, and the configuration parameters, recipe data and master control data of the equipment are also passed. Under the standard bus, the production equipment level is reached. The production planning data, operation control, documentation, maintenance, analysis, optimization, etc. are realized at the previous management level, and the user interface is connected with the ERP system to realize data management of the entire factory.

The production process of the entire Krones system is effectively monitored, and various factors affecting product quality and efficiency are also quantified and submitted to the upper analysis tools, so that managers can obtain timely problems in the field equipment and process and make timely corrections. Various factors affecting cost are controlled, and effective analysis of cost reduction can be performed to improve overall productivity.

The integration of ERP with control and field instrumentation makes the entire plant transparent and easier to optimize and improve. This is also the future direction of the packaging industry - software is becoming more important here, not just equipment.

How does a complete engineering design platform achieve an integrated architecture for the entire production process? This requires a complete platform support - a complete software-wide smooth connection for the entire system, modular programming, and open software library support such as IEC61131, PLCopenMotion, Safety, Hydraulic, Logic Design capabilities, and support for OMAC's PackML with feature libraries, and B&R's control system can integrate these open libraries into its engineering platform, which will provide designers of packaging machinery with a better platform to enable them to Faster use of existing library functions to achieve system development.

AutomationStudio is B&R's complete control system design. It uses AllInOne's design to provide full process support throughout the packaging product lifecycle in an AutomationStudio development platform, from project collaborative management, version management, project configuration, programming. Simulation to debug diagnosis and maintenance, which enables developers to implement the entire process of the machine and the design of all objects on a unified platform. This is by far the powerful engineering design platform in the field of automation.

From the perspective of the simplicity of product development, the design of the connection capacity of multiple products in the future, and the management of the entire product life cycle, an integrated development platform is essential and a key factor for future automation vendors to win customers.

Software is becoming the core competitiveness of the future. The core software is becoming the key to the competitiveness of the system. The software age is coming, depending on the following characteristics of the software system:

1. Software is a package of Know-how - it allows those manufacturers to have a deep understanding of the process that is encapsulated and not easily replicated, which constitutes the core of the machine's competitiveness.

2. The software gives the machine a more flexible function: under the condition that the hardware is unchanged, or under the condition that the hardware changes little, the software enables the machine to realize more abundant functions, and can fully realize the potential of the hardware. The big play gives the machine more functional design, for example: under certain conditions of hardware, such as recipe management, quality analysis tools such as SPC, remote maintenance functions, etc., will bring more competitiveness to the machine.

The software gives the machine a higher added value and gives the machine a higher level of competitiveness.

3. Standardized software design is becoming a trend in different machine processes and different machine function designs, extracting common functional blocks, such as color registration, tension, signal filtering, PID, etc. can be standardized, including functional Standardization, B&R began to standardize software packaging for machine software in packaging processes such as labeling, hot film packaging, and palletizing in 2007. Through this work, in the future, its goal is to parameterize settings without programming. By reducing commissioning time to a few days, thanks to the overall understanding of the process and machine and the ability to extract models, it will undoubtedly significantly shorten TimetoMarket and the cost savings for the entire development and commissioning is enormous.

The above figure shows the structure of extracting the common model in different machines of the packaging process. In the packaging process, common units can be extracted from different units. The call of standard modules will make the future machine greatly reduce development time and difficulty, even The DCS system only needs to be configured without programming.

Of course, standardization is not only software modules, but also standardized operations such as project documentation, debugging steps, communication mechanisms, etc., in order to effectively make development into an efficient track.

Motion control is bringing innovation to the machine. No industry is facing huge changes like packaging. Packaging manufacturers hope that the equipment they put in can do more work, and the replacement time should be as short as possible. A huge improvement, in addition to the improvement of processing speed and precision, more importantly, it gives the machine a more flexible production capacity. Through the setting of parameters, the servo system can change the speed and position to meet the needs of different specifications. Order switching can be achieved without any manual adjustments, which results in a significant reduction in reloading time and a reduction in the uncertainty of manual adjustments to the machine.

The application of real-time communication technology with the increase of production speed, the real-time data exchange between control units is also more demanding, the traditional field bus can not meet the demand for data exchange today, 1. The amount of data is larger, The data load capacity of the bus is required. 2. The transmission speed requirement, because the motion control and multi-CPU data exchange need to transmit data quickly, the original bus such as CAN, Modubus, Profibus, etc. can not meet these requirements. The need for real-time data transmission, especially in the synchronous action of motion control, in order to achieve high-precision binding of position and speed, it is necessary to provide real-time data communication by high-speed bus to ensure high synchronization. Due to the need for data exchange with management, it must be able to support a more open communication system.

Since the management software uses standard Ethernet technology, this has driven the demand for Ethernet technology in the control layer and the field layer. However, Ethernet cannot provide real-time performance. Real-time communication technologies such as EthernetPOWERLINK, ProfinetIRT and SERCOSIII are available today. Rapid development and support for many manufacturers. On the other hand, in order to ensure that the original application software is protected, it needs to be compatible with the past programs, and EthernetPOWERLINK technology is the choice of Zuijia communication technology to meet this demand, it is designed as 100Mbps high-speed Ethernet, and A real-time protocol stack is provided to handle high-speed real-time data exchange, and its application layer also retains the wide-application CANopen. Since it is also compatible with TCP/IP applications, it can meet the integration requirements of the future. It is also bound to become the standard communication system in the future packaging field.

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