Flexibility, short cycle times and optimum use of materials: these were the requirements for the new machine for the production of credit card slots for wallets. Autec, a manufacturer of automation systems for shoe and leather goods factories in Pisa, Italy, developed the machine for a prestigious Italian brand. The Festo Motion Terminal is the ideal solution.
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.