Rockwell And his best partners join in a new edition of the Automation University

The days 26 and 27 March some 300 professionals of industries so shoot like the Packaging, Feeding and Drunk, Process, Automotive sector, Infrastructures, Power or Treatment of Waters gathered in the World Trade Center of Barcelona in the frame of a new edition of the Automation University Special organised by the multinational Rockwell Automation. In two days of sessions, presentations and practical demonstrations gave to know the last advances in systems of automation and industrial information.

“Automation University Is a global event that tries to show to the customers the solutions of industrial automation of Rockwell”. These are the words with which Juan Robisco, Product Manager of Components of Rockwell Automation Iberian, resumía the fundamental aim of some days that in this occasion turned surroundings to the integrated architectures, the components and the hygiene. “It is not an event headed to realizar the typical reports, but the customers can appreciate the capacities of our equipment with demonstrations in different rooms. It is a type of event organisation in which we carry working does long in Rockwell, and in her expose our solutions with the help of the solutions that contribute our partners”.

This event, that goes rotando by all Europe, disembarked in this occasion in a very special frame, the World Trade Center of Barcelona. With seen to the sea, some 300 professionals inscribed could assist to a selective combination of presentations, demonstrations and practical sessions (Hands-on) on CompactLogix, PowerFlex 525 and Stratix 5700, being able to increase his knowledges on the last technologies and obtain an up to date vision of the last tendencies in automation. “These experiences with laboratories so that the customer check the capacities and qualities of our equipment come them carrying out to local level from 15 years ago, but what have done here is to copy the experience of the Automation Fair that Rockwell organises every year in EE UU. There it gathers to customers of all the country and premium also the fact that the customer can realizar practices with the own equipment”, matizaba Juan Robisco.

Already in the afternoon, José Walls, the new general director of Rockwell Automation Iberia, wanted to recalcar the aims of the Automation University, “an event to share our vision of the industrial automation and to learn of all”. And with regard to the global vision of the solutions that can offer the company, added: “we Are a company with 110 years of history in the market and are presents in more than 20 industrial states. Nowadays we do not consider to face the challenges of an individual way and thus in the world of the automation is necessary to surround of partners to give the best possible solution to the industry”.

Precisely in the formative section, the event had the assistance of numerous partners of Rockwell Automation like Endress+Hauser, Molex, HMS, Prosoft, EPlan, Oldi, Bihl+Wiedemann or Cisco, in addition to other a lot of of integradores of systems: Abantia, Aqualogy, Augi, Hexa Engineers, Procisa, Solidsafe and Spin.

“The integrated architecture is the technology that uses Rockwell Automation to work in the world of the automation in any area. What have exposed in this occasion are different panels that allow to check like a same technology can cost for any part of the factory. Voucher for the control of processes, for the processes by batches or batch, to handle the adjustable speed drives, the control of movements, discreet control and for the control of hygiene”, explained us the manager of Integrated architectures and Software, Antoni Rovira. “The importance of the integrated technology is that it is multidisciplinary. For example, a same CPU can realizar distinct functions or miscellaneous of them at the same time. The second big characteristic is his escalabilidad. The same technology can serve so much to automate a very small process like one greater. For example, can work in a very small plant with a very small automaton, average or big. The advantage roots in that in this technology the bookshops used are always the same, differing between them only the quantity by heart, the speed of process and the power. By what in a same factory can have different models at the same time, or begin with a small model and go growing realizar a direct step of program, without that it exist migration any”.

“The third  big capacity is the use of a network of only communications, Ethernet/IP inside the possible. Almost all can finish it communicating nowadays through this network: control of movement, variation of speed, control of process, communications of entrance/gone out, synchronisation of hygiene, etc. The last big characteristic is the integration of this type of applications, with a CPU of the controller that contains a database in real time of tags with all the information of the process, displayable with all the tools of software Rockwell”, concludes.

For Antoni Rovira the integrated architecture is the authentic spearhead of the technology Rockwell: “From her it drags all the technology of components that finishes connecting with our system and with the technology of our partners, that develop compatible products with ours, that even have the same physical appearance, and that we validate and integrate to expand the fan of options of connection, offering a very complete coverage for industrial plants”.

The another face of the big exposed signpost in one of the living rooms of the WTC of Barcelona was devoted to the industrial components, in which Rockwell explains a complete range of products and solutions. “In the section of Sensing&Switching have sensors inductivos, capacitivos, ultrasonic and photoelectric, in addition to encóderes and other types of sensors (pressesure, temperature and discharge) and the barriers Light Arrays for measurement of height”, explained us the engineer Jon Leanizbarrutia. In the section of hygiene, Rockwell has of devices for the control of entrances and exits of all the roads of safe connection that can have in machines (switches, organs of control, relays, barriers of emergency, etc.).

“In the section of Connectivity have of systems to join all the devices of automation: entrances/gone out decentralised of IP20 and IP67, and interfaces of operator (buoys, sirens, signaling, pulsantería for zones Atex, panels, etc.). In Control have fusible, seccionadores, controllers of temperature, timers, sources of feeding, and with all the part of MCS for the fulfillment of rule and with the systems of modular control. Finally, in the part of Strength, find us with a wide range of arrancadores, controllers of motors distributed, and also with a wide spectrum of variators of high range and low range with different types of functionalities”, added.