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Latest trends in Automation for Automotive Industry - case studies
Ninth ARC India Forum, Pune August, 2011
Achieving Operational Excellence Through IT and Automation Solutions
Elmar Zimmerling
Account Management
B&R
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Facts
• The automotive industry is driving new automation concepts, new control technologies and advanced communication as a trendsetter
• This also affects other industries – and thus the automation in the whole
• Many machine builders are indirectly connected with the automotive industry
• B&R offers solutions for economic and sustainable automation - best suitable for the Indian Automotive Industry
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B&R at Daimler
Daimler brochure::
„Overview about usage of B&R systems at Daimler R&D“
End of Line Tester
• Universal battery tester for hybrid batteries
• Based entirelly on B&R automation system, including UDS protocol library (diagnostics) and integrated safety
• standardization and introduction to all relevant Daimler production sites worldwide e-mobility
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100% function check highest product quality
• „B&R is the chosen supplier for the automation base for Daimler´s EOL tester for vehicle batteries“, said Mr. Fink, Daimler Manager R&D
• Further applications with hybrid gear boxes are following – again with B&R base.
Daimler Engineers develop with
Automation Studio,
the unique B&R Engineering Tool
B&R at Daimler
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Benefits of B&R Automation Studio
Supports the implementation of your idea
Enables efficient engineering
Seamless integration of B&R products
Openness to third party manufacturer
Highest level of reusability
Investment security of software
Automation Software Philosophy:
• Reliability
• Independency
• Consistency
Everything in one hand and out of one hand!
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B&R in Automotive
Industrial PC & Panels
• Long-standing worldwide reputation in the automotive manufacturing
• Excellent value for money
• Long-term availability and designed for minimum energy consumption
• Built-in Maintenance Controller
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B&R in Automotive
typical use cases
• Visualization as operator panels in body shop, paint shop, assembly lines, …
• High-Performance PLC, with optional integration of CNC and Robot kinematics
• Server for Process Control Applications
conclusion
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OEMs trust in B&R
body shop, Audi HQ Ingolstadt
• 300 B&R Panel PC as a standardized operator Panel in AUDI body shop
Sustainability
• automatic shut-off of backlight - if not operated for a certain time or by shift scheduler via production LAN
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B&R is automotive standard supplier
BMW trusts in B&R • In 2007 BMW AG has named
B&R exclusive supplier of operator panels.
• B&R is to supply innovative IPCs and Power Panel to BMW´s international production sites until at least 2013
• Up to now more than 4.500 units have been delivered to BMW production sites worldwide.
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Power Train, Inspection
Daimler Benz HQ Untertürkheim
• The Panel PC 725 is designed for onsite operation. Built with IP65 protection from all sides, it can easily handle splashed water, impacts and vibrations.
• crankshaft inspection, together with vision system, reading data matrix code
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EISENMANN
• B&R supplied EISENMANN and DÜRR with more than 100 Power
Panels , paint shop in VW plant USA Tennessee
• B&R, specified by end customer, VW Wolfsburg, planning dept.
Leading Plant Builders
paint shop, VW US plant Chattanouga
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references:
B&R machine-builder customers
Sonderhoff • Privatly owned company, for more than 50 years in the market
• Supplier for polymer sealing materials, engineering and services
• High-tech solutions with entire B&R automation technology - PLC, IPC, servoDRIVES, CNC, …
one single software tool
• CNC, as a PLC add-on offers inexpensive solutions without restrictions in application
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applications: Components and modules must remain tightly sealed
after their assembly. To prevent from humidity, dust,
harmful media or temperature-influences
B&R machine-builder customers
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COMAU
Italian manufacturer for automotive industry
Newest Robot generation C5G now based on B&R Automation
Drive technology B&R ACOPOS with energetic recovery system
B&R X20 I/O
Ethernet Powerlink, high-speed fieldbus
reference list
B&R and Robotic
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• ACOPOSmulti servo drive technology
• X20 IO system
• Automation PC
• Ethernet Powerlink fieldbus
COMAU Robot Generation CG5
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B&R Controls in Automotive
B&R APROL Process&Control Technology
• Audi AG places great importance on saving energy for environmental protection
• As a consequence, the company has succeeded in clearly reducing the energy consumption per vehicle at the Ingolstadt production plant in the last few years.
• Thanks to more than 1.000 B&R PLCs in media control ( compressed air, cooling, heating, ventilation systems with heat recovery … )
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B&R Controls in Automotive
X20 PLC and I/O familiy
• openess – support of well-known fieldbusses
• More than 130 X20 I/O nodes are in progress at assembly lines of VW Plant Bratislava, Slovakia. Production Site of Audi Q7, VW Touareg, Porsche Cayenne
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Thank you for your interest
Perfection in Automation
Conclusion • B&R has become an industry leader in innovation and technology through an acute intuition for market developments and trends
• B&R is providing best practice solutions not just components – Everything in one hand and out of one hand – Automation Studio
• This applies even more to the needs of the fast growing
Indian automotive industry