VTEM combina l'alta moda con l'Industria 4.0

Flessibilità, brevi tempi di ciclo e il miglior utilizzo possibile dei materiali: questi erano i requisiti per la nuova macchina adibita alla produzione di scomparti per carte di credito nei portamonete. Autec, produttore di impianti di automazione per calzaturifici e pelletterie a Pisa, ha sviluppato la macchina per un noto marchio italiano. La soluzione ideale ha incluso il Festo Motion Terminal.

Ultra-fast folding of credit card slots

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.