Technologies: Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 TwinSAFE PLC Visualization Beckhoff AX5000 Drives 3 Axis gantry Beckhoff AL8000 Linear Motors Keyence CL-3000 confocal displacement sensor Trumpf laser with EtherCAT comms Background: A major EV manufacturing company developed a novel clamping device to hold EV battery cells in position for welding the current collector in place. An OEM had

Technologies: Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Inductive Automation Ignition 7.9 Modbus TCP RTA Ethernet/IP to Modbus RTU gateway Background: A leader in indoor vertical farming custom designed a PCB to control the brightness of 14' grow lights. The PCBs were to communicate with the Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC via Modbus RTU through an RTA gateway. Two systems consisted

Technologies: Unitronics Unistream PLC and HMI Unitronics Unilogic Allen-Bradley Kinetix 500 servo drives Microsoft VB .NET TCP/IP Communication GigE Cameras Background: A major aerospace manufacturer has an automated materials testing system which was programmed by the original equipment manufacturer utilizing a Unitronics Unistream PLC. However, the system had many programming issues that were preventing

Technologies: Beckhoff CP6606 Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 Beckhoff PLC HMI Modbus Communication TCP/IP Communication Background: Client manufactures UV curing systems with a huge range of option and configurations revolving around one central system. The client previously employed a full-time engineer to create a program to fit the specific options of every machine sold. This was

Studmeister had a custom roll forming machine which creates custom parts based on CAD recipe files. The machine was running on an outdated Mitsubishi PLC with a Microsoft .NET PC based user interface. The motherboard stopped working and replacements were no longer available. Source code for the machine and CAD recipe decoding was not available either.