Conselice (RA), Italy
The project involves the implementation of a pallet handling system on 300 meters of monorail and the whole system of rolling mills which refers to it divided on two levels connected by 8 elevators / descenders, in order to collect the production flows, bring them into warehouse, picking area and shipping department.
Design and executive engineering Hardware and software with the supply of electrical distribution and automation panels for the management and control of the entire system.
In order to implement the plan, a Siemens multimaster control network was set up; . The 4 S7-1500 masters, 2 for automation and 2 for security logics in shared configuration, share the field and communicate with it through the Profinet and Profisafe protocol. A link topology of the various ring-redundant devices was chosen. The Profinet network is composed of 50 inverters, 9 HMIs, 10 decentralized peripheries, 8 Scalances, and manages 3000 digital points.
The plan manages the full traceability of the product and communicates with the company MES to manage the pallet flows automatically.
The system has made it possible to increase the plan’s productivity by 30% without increasing staff thanks to the optimization of the logistic flows implemented in the software logics.