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Perfectly polished
Axes DGC feed the brush maga­
zine from the magazine set-up to
the processing station.
Austria // Cleaning the inside of tall, narrow glasses or bottles is not an
easy task. Polishing and deburring the insides of narrow pipes is even
trickier. Tyrolean company EM-Technik has developed the ideal solution,
which features components from Festo at every processing step. Semi-rotary
drive DRRD, stroke cylinder DGSL and parallel gripper HGPD are used to
feed the pipes.
To process the pipes, small brass brushes are
picked up automatically using three-jaw grip-
pers and guided through the pipe with vertical
movements. They are then alternately rotated
in a clockwise and anticlockwise direction. At
this and all downstream processing stations,
electric toothed belt axes ELGR with stepper
motors EMMS ensure perfect precision in
motion sequences along the Z-axis. An add-
itional station is reserved for smaller quanti-
ties for special designs. With these variants,
part of the outer contour also needs to be
processed. An electric cylinder type EPCO en-
sures that the tool is precisely tilted until it
reaches the required angle. A toothed belt
axis ELGA aligns the entire station to compen-
sate for the tilting movement.
Suzhou, China
In a joint initiative, Festo Didactic SE and Su-
zhou Industrial Park Human Resources De-
velopment Co., Ltd. (SIPHRD) have de-
veloped a learning centre for providing
training to specialists from the ChinaSinga­
pore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). There are
5,000 companies based at the SIP. Half of
them are international companies – among
them global players including Audi, Log-
itech, Apple and Bosch. A total of 710,000
specialists and managers work at the SIP.
Youtube, worldwide
With the new YouTube video series
“service2see”, Festo is providing a support
tool for service technicians and engineers in
the areas of maintenance, commissioning
and configuration.
The online tutorials show, for example, how
to replace the toothed belt of an ECG axis or
how to update the firmware of the Festo Con-
figuration Tool. The channel was launched
with around two dozen tutorials in German
and English and will be gradually extended.
The objective is to create a YouTube library
that covers the topics and questions that the
Festo Technical Customer Hotline are asked
most frequently.
Photo: © EM-Technik
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