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SVIA, in Sweden, uses ports Anybus X-gateways to connect his cells automated based in DeviceNet to any network that use his customers

How connect cells automated to any industrial network

Chris King, Project Manager - Global Marketing of HMS10/05/2013

Svensk Industriautomation (SVIA) Is a company of automation of fast growth originaria of Jönköping, Sweden, that develops robotic systems for customers in the Nordic countries, Germany, the United Kingdom, Low Countries and United States. The systems place beside cells automated, which communicate with other systems in a factory, for example. The most important of the cell automated is the system of vision typical of SVIA, designated Pickvision, which detects exactly how a particular object places on a strip transportadora and, therefore, allows to the robot raise the object. In simple terms, one can say that SVIA allows that the robots see.

The system of vision typical of SVIA, Pickvision, is a revolutionary technology that has done very popular in the market of the automation and has allowed to the company duplicate his turnover in the last years. “Our strength bases in the simplicity”, affirms Anders Mandorsson, manager of project and designer in SVIA. “It is very easy to indicate him to the robot what take of the strip, and afterwards, are smart to follow”. Using the software Pickvision, the users take a photography of the object that wish to raise of the strip. The software automatically detects the form of the object, and every time that this form shows in the camera, the robot is able to determine how raise it.

In Pickvision the operator decides what take of the strip transportadora. It takes a photography of each ítem and the software identifies the forms.

Connect DeviceNet and Profibus

Like the most advanced systems of automation, the cells automated of SVIA need to communicate with some type of wide industrial network, and this type of communication is not always so simple. “It does a pair of years, build a cell automated for a customer that promised me access to his system Profibus, but afterwards of a time, remained clear that our system went to be only a separate node in his network. There it is when we find the ports Anybus X-gateways, of HMS. We treat to install one inside our cabinet, and could llevar the conversion between our system based in DeviceNet and the system Profibus of the customer of a form very lúcida”, declares Anders Mandorsson.

Since, SVIA has used the ports Anybus X-gateways in many of the cells automated that deliver to customers of all the world. Once again, the simplicity in the key. “DeviceNet Is the standard that employ in the majority of our cabinets and in place to resolve the conversion to other networks we same, simply install a port X-gateway of HMS. It is more economic, but especially, facilitates him to the customer since this obtains a clear segregation between our system and his own network of factory”, affirms Anders Mandorsson.

Anders Mandorsson, manager of project and designer in SVIA.

The cells automated of SVIA generally come with robots of ABB, which operate with a network based in DeviceNet. It Robots can communicate easily with other networks DeviceNet, but if they have to connected to another network, for example, a network Profibus (with a PLC of Siemens) or a network EtherCAT (with a PLC of Beckhoff) is necessary a ‘translator'. The ports Anybus X-gateways llevar the conversion between two networks through his own integrated software, which restructures the telegrams of a side and does them intelligible for the another. The configuration realises within a matter of minutes by means of the software of configuration Anybus (Anybus Configuration Manager), what means that it is not necessary programming any.

When a cell automated is working, a camera in the ceiling monitors the strip...

...And it allows that the robot know exactly what take and how do it.

Flexibility

The cells automated of SVIA are very flexible and can easily adjust to satisfy the needs of different applications of the customers such like setting, packaging, perforaciones and turning. Through the ports Anybus X-gateways, SVIA also can be very flexible when tratra of networks to which can connect . “To be honest, now no longer think so much in the networks, ” says Anders Mandorsson. “When we created a robotic system, simply ask a port X-gateway that converts to the industrial network of the customer - the enchufamos and works”.