Lenze accelerates robot application set-up times

Drive technology that is innovative, space saving and energy-efficient needs to be clearly comprehensible and easy to use so that machine designers can maximise the benefits. This is where Lenze comes in with a promise of simpler engineering that makes life as easy as possible for the design engineer – for example creating the possibility of very short commissioning times.

Drive technology is critical in machine building because it is responsible for controlling motion. In future, it will be even more important to make the parameterisation of motion as easy as possible. In the course of Industry 4.0, modern machines have to deliver flexible and customised outputs. To ensure that the level of complexity for designers and end-users is kept under control, Lenze has created new methods to set up and control machine drive system, including complex robotics applications.

It is a fact that design engineers want to build competitive machines. In this context, it is not only innovation, flexibility and performance that matter but also – and more than ever before – faster completion of the development work. Lenze supports this with its FAST Application Software Toolbox.

Thanks to the use of standardised and modular software, ready-made motion functions such as winding, registration and positioning can be very easily integrated into the machine control system. They can be reused with minimal effort for subsequent machines. The FAST technology modules all use the same standardised interfaces which can be easily combined in a number of ways. Software programmers have more time for development and testing of their special machine functions, while this opportunity to ‘concentrate on the essentials’ gives the company an advantage over its competitors.

But does this also apply to apparently complex robotics applications? Commissioning a pick and place application in just seven minutes – is that possible? Lenze says it is, with the complete, ready-to-use FAST robotics solutions. These are powerful pick and place modules with a fully-fledged robotics core, into which everything that the design engineer needs for fast, productive and flexible handling technology has already been integrated.

They make it very easy to integrate robot kinematics into the overall automation and motion control system. Pick and place movements can thus be easily executed by means of parameterisation and without any detailed knowledge of robotics. This massively reduces engineering time and effort for the machine builder.

Drive technology is critical in machine building because it is responsible for controlling motion. In future, it will be even more important to make the parameterisation of motion as easy as possible. In the course of Industry 4.0, modern machines have to deliver flexible and customised outputs. To ensure that the level of complexity for designers and end-users is kept under control, Lenze has created new methods to set up and control machine drives.

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