Sonplas GmbH is a special machine manufacturer > 300 employees at the site > delivered 1000 special machines to well-known customers from the automotive, automotive supply and commercial vehicle industries, among others Objectives: - Necessary expert knowledge for programming and operating robots from different manufacturers - Time required to familiarize with the individual program syntax and the development environments - Lack of flexibility in capacity planning
Production system with the use of the SIMATIC Robot Integrator - Use of several different robots
With the SIMATIC Robot Integrator, every automation specialist can now also program the robots in the TIA Portal
Christian Denk
- Shortening of the training time of maintenance personnel up to 65% - Engineering of robots and plant automation does not have to be done using different tools - Robots can be operated with the machine operating devices and thus simplifies commissioning, maintenance and operation - More degrees of freedom in technologies and projects