Full Service Automation Technology

In order to implement these components in practice on the real system, we use modern components and methods of control technology and usually use programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in addition to embedded systems.

We have successfully implemented a wide variety of projects with solutions from various manufacturers.
Due to our interdisciplinary know-how and experience with various automation manufacturers, we are able to coordinate even systems of different origins/manufacturers and bring them together for optimal system integration.

Especially in the case of producer durable goods such as hydraulic presses and punches - with their decades of machine life cycles - profitability calculations and feasibility analyses repeatedly show that regular modernisation of control technology, peripherals, actuators and sensors yield considerable financial advantages.
Instead of completely replacing a machine, the "old" hardware can be made "fit" again for modern demands on productivity and efficiency at manageable costs and in a short time.
This approach has coined the term „Retrofit“ in industry.

In principle, the PLC is a microcontroller with corresponding memory regions for control program and control parameters as well as corresponding inputs for sensor signals and outputs for actuator signals, supplemented by man-machine interfaces for operation and interfaces for industrial communication for programming and networking. The PLC thus forms a cornerstone of industry 4.0. With the development and use of so-called cyber-physical systems (CPS) this leads to globally networked, optimized control of internationally organized production (Industrial Internet of Things - IIoT).

In the simplest case, a PLC has inputs, outputs, an operating system (firmware) and an interface for loading the application software. The application program determines how the outputs are to be switched depending on the inputs.

The operating system ensures that the application always receives the current state of the encoders. On the basis of this information, the application program can switch the outputs in such a way that the machine or system functions in the desired manner.

Automation technology comprises the design and implementation of control systems, i.e. the directed influencing of the behaviour of technical systems (devices, machines, plants, and biological systems).