IMS 24 facility with 4 sub-systems

IMS 24 facility with 4 sub-systems 

This facility can be used for fully automated manufacture of a 3-part workpiece (up to eight different final products being permissible). IMS 24 comprises sub-systems for sorting, assembly, testing and handling. All subsystems can be used individually or combined as required. Carriers on dual conveyor belts are used to transport workpieces between the individual sub-systems. 

Making exclusive use of actuators and sensors found typically in industrial applications, this training facility permits realistic simulations of complex, continuous industrial production processes. The facility is also controlled by PLC systems commonly used in the industry and incorporating a process-field bus as well as decentralized peripherals. Optional extensions comprising modern, industrial communication systems are provided for. Promoting an acquisition of skills as part of teamwork, the system enables students to independently gain a basic understanding of mechatronic systems. 

Each sub-system is designed so that the student can acquire the necessary skills and knowledge step-by-step, starting with simple automation operations and sequences, and ending in development of complex automation programs. Standardized interfaces allow a use of various industrial PLC control units or the UniTrain-I system. 

• Transport system: Dual conveyor belts with DC drive motors and a variable-speed, three-phase drive motor. 
• Identification system: Four workpiece carriers are each furnished with a fixed code. A reading unit is mounted on each station. 
• Identification system: An RFID identification system can be installed optionally.  
• Supervisory level: Preparation of production orders on the control station PC; process visualization and operational-data acquisition 
• Linkage of the process control station via TCP/IP 
• IMS 3 sorting sub-system 
• IMS 4 assembly sub-system 
• IMS 6 testing sub-system 
• IMS 7 handling sub-system