At this year’s SPS, Beckhoff presented the entire bandwidth of smart digital automation and a wealth of innovations that will drive the automation industry and digital transformation forward: from the XPlanar transport system with free-floating planar movers to smart engineering directly in the cloud through to the latest high-performance IPC Generation.
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With XPlanar, Beckhoff shows a transport system at SPS that sets new benchmarks: free-floating planar movers move jerk-free and without contact at up to 4 m/s over planar tiles arranged in an arbitrary layout. Travelling magnetic fields provide for exact and highly dynamic positioning. The result: maximum freedom in product transport, maximum flexibility in positioning and optimized machine and plant design.
XPlanar
On Booth 406 in Hall 7 we will show you how to take the next step in machine optimization: With TwinCAT 3 Machine Learning, Beckhoff now integrates machine learning (ML) into the overall control system. For training purposes, the use of established frameworks such as MATLAB®, TensorFlow, PyTorch, SciKit Learn, and others is possible. A trained model can be exported in a standardized format (ONNX) and executed in the TwinCAT runtime. This opens up optimization potential and new possibilities in predictive maintenance, process control or automated quality control.
TwinCAT Machine Learning
With just one click to the Analytics Dashboard: At SPS 2019 Beckhoff will show you how to achieve these dramatic time savings. Where previously several hundred clicks and work steps were required for HMI design, the new TwinCAT Analytics One-Click Dashboard now reduces this process to a single click. The Analytics configuration not only automatically generates PLC code for continuous machine monitoring, but also the associated dashboard showing the analysis results in an individual design including specific controls and language switching.
TwinCAT Analytics
Experience the performance leap of the Beckhoff Industrial PCs with three new processor generations at the SPS:
The Beckhoff IPC portfolio now includes five performance classes. The range from ARM Cortex™ to Intel® Xeon® with up to 40 processor cores is completed by the resource-saving and fanless ultra-compact Industrial PC C6025 with Intel® Core™ i U.
Industrial PCs
With the CX7000 Embedded PC, the convenient and powerful world of TwinCAT 3 is now also available for small controllers. The scalability of PC-based control technology from Beckhoff is increased again – from the mini PLC through to the many-core Industrial PC. An advanced 400 MHz processor and integrated, configurable I/Os provide an optimum price-performance ratio. See for yourself: We will present the CX7000 in detail at SPS.
CX7000
At the SPS 2019, Beckhoff presents a fieldbus solution designed for high-performance machines and highly complex applications: EtherCAT G. Building on the principle of the successful EtherCAT technology, it makes speeds of 1 Gbit/s or 10 Gbit/s available. Both performance levels can be used as system-compliant supplements to the EtherCAT technology. For this purpose, the branch concept enables the integration of 100 Mbit/s EtherCAT segments and reduces the propagation delay times in large networks through parallel processing of the segments.
EtherCAT G
Nuremberg, Germany
26 – 28 November 2019
Hall 7, Booth 406