AB Electric – faster automation of printing machines
Using the Modular Application
Creator to generate the TIA Portal project
AB Electric – faster automation of printing machines
Using the Modular Application
Creator to generate the TIA Portal project
Machine Building
AB Electric A / S
Kolding Denmark
AB
Electric is a panel builder and automation supplier specializing in end-to-end
project management. The company delivers control panels, software development,
installation, commissioning, and service — all in one package. AB
Electric has 60 employees with headquarters in Kolding in Denmark.
Reduce
engineering time to focus on own creative
solutions and innovations for their end customer to strengthen their
competitiveness
Switching
to a complete SIMATIC solution with one controller managing both the PLC and
the motion part
Standardization
to ensure the quality and to reduce commissioning time
Significantly
faster in high quality with standards
AB
Electric used Modular Application Creator (Print Standard Equipment Module)
with TIA Portal
High-quality
machine projects are automatically created based on predefined and tested
equipment modules
Automatic
generating instead of programming TIA Portal projects
„ If I had written my own code, I would
have spent three work weeks. By using Modular Application Creator, it took me
only half a day “
Mark Baumann-Lund (Baumatik), AB Electric Software Engineering Partner
Three
weeks of programming in only half a day using Modular Application Creator
All
delivered solutions come in the same high quality because of standards
Faster
commissioning due to less errors in TIA Portal project
More
time and abilities for own
creative
solutions and innovations, instead of spending time on routine tasks
AB
Electric provided automation for printing machines for a long time. They
developed their own standards and templates for machine automation and motion
control.
AB
Electric’s solution to the machine builder TRESU used the Modular
Application Creator with
the TIA Portal for a printing machine with three print units and 13 axes.
As a
software engineer with his own company Baumatik, Mark Baumann-Lund has collaborated with
AB Electric in Kolding for many years to deliver controllers for printing
machines.