AS-Interface - References

AS-Interface has made a breakthrough on a wide front in automotive tech-nology. And the examples given below of typical applications illustrate how AS-Interface is also employed by well-known manufacturers in many other branches of industry.

Automotive industry:

The floor and overhead suspended conveyor specifications system in the new Rüssels- heim plant of OPELAG has been completely automated using AS-Inter-face. Over one hundred AS-Interface gateways and over one thousand AS- Interface modules are used to process the signals from several thousand sensors and industrial encoders. A remarkable feature of this plant is the through- going professional production line without buffer systems, requiring the AS-Interface net-work to be constructed in segments, using sliding contacts. The overall length of this system is well over one kilometre. The transfer and assign-ment functions via the sliding contacts demonstrate once again the robust-ness and reliability of AS-Interface.

Chemical and process technology:

Paint manufacture and the subsequent filling of the products is the core business of the Herberts Lacke Company. The demands of the automated production plant concept include the provision of safeguards in the poten- tially explosive areas. AS-Interface modules with ATEX approval for Zone1 are daily proving their value in these critical applications.

Storage and mechanical handling:

Plant sections involving logic networks are simply controlled via AS-Inter-face. Thanks to the comprehensive diagnostic functions, problems can be quickly and precisely located, even in extensive systems, leading to the re-duction of downtime and rationalisation of plant servicing. These attributes prompted Viastore Systems GmbH to select AS-Interface in numerous high-bay racking stores projects. In another application in 2003, Roche Diagnostik collaborated with Aberle Steuerungstechnik GmbH in pallet and professional container handling technology featuring AS-Interface.

Plant construction:

As a renowned constructor of filling plant, Krones has for some time suc-cessfully incorporated the AS-Interface concept into its projects. This has allowed decentralised plant components to be controlled on a modular ba- sis and networked together with ease. Here, high quality, long life and great flexibility are the attractive AS-Interface features.

Food and beverage industry:

In breweries - and as here, in the dispensing of drinks - Feige GmbH uses AS-Interface to control flows via the open/close operation of cocks. Well-proven solutions are available for the open structure, as are pcb solutions for box installation and also integrated solutions for electro valves.

Component manufacture:

In order to reduce the amount of cabling required and to provide adequate flexibility for alternating production units, AS-Interface is frequently em-ployed to control the handling sequences, as illustrated here on an SMD as- sembly plant. As a rule the Emergency-Stop buttons are also integrated into the AS-Interface Safety at Work concept, so as to avoid dual cabling.
Issue date 2004-11-19 - Catalogue AS-Interface 2004/2005 Subject to reasonable modifications due to technical advances.Copyright Pepperl+Fuchs, Printed in Germany

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