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.
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.