Flexibilité, temps de cycles réduits et meilleure utilisation possible des matériaux : ce sont les caractéristiques que devait présenter la nouvelle machine de fabrication de pochettes pour cartes de crédit destinées aux porte-monnaie. Autec, constructeur d'installations automatisées destinées aux usines de fabrication de chaussures et d'articles en cuir installé à Pise, a développé la machine pour une célèbre marque italienne. Elle comporte un composant idéal : le Festo Motion Terminal.
Autec’s new machine controls the gluing of two pieces, one made of leather and one made of silk. A servo robot then transfers the glued pieces to a leather folding machine. "In this space-saving, compact solution, eight credit card slots can be glued and folded in 14 seconds," continues Barsacchi.
The system is then just like a reprogrammable piece of hardware and the software content is adapted to the relevant application. The days when a valve only had one function are gone. A management software program was developed for this machine and installed on a PLC that is used as the interface for controlling the device. The entire process was very simple and trouble-free.
This genuine Industry 4.0 solution has eliminated the error rate associated with manually manufacturing these credit card slots and optimum use is made of the available raw material.