System description:

The Dosaxe system is an automated "on-the-fly" filling system for jars/bottles of various sizes in a continuous production environment. It is based on a genuine industrial machine used in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries.

This automated system can be used independently with jars/bottles, for example, or as part of the flexible ErmaSmart production line.

The main functions of the Dosaxe system are:

• Conveying jars/bottles from the inlet to the outlet of the system (jars/bottles can be conveyed either singly or in pairs in parallel, in different sizes).
• Filling the jars/bottles on the fly or at a standstill with the linear axis using brushless motorization

This automated system, designed in line with the principles of the Industry of the Future (Industry 4.0), meets the main requirements for intelligent and evolving production methods:

• Scalability & Flexibility with the possibility of assigning the system to different types of production
• IoT & Communications with the PLC, variable speed drives, and communicating circuit breakers
• Efficient Actuators with the linear axis with brushless motor
• Communicating circuit breakers

This teaching system is mainly intended for activities involving driving, system control, industrial maintenance, electrical engineering, automation, and mechanics.

This product comes with a technical and educational file in digital format.

Technical solutions covered:

• Conveyor with three-phase asynchronous gear motor, variable speed drive, communicating incremental encoder
• Linear axis with brushless motor with encoder and control/command via drive
• Filling hopper with electromagnet
• Various sensors including IO-Link (mechanical, optical, etc.)
• Communicating circuit breakers
• Control/command with Siemens S7-1200 PLC and KTP 700 color touchscreen panel

Industry 4.0 topics covered:

• Scalability & Flexibility
• Customization
• Simplified programming
• Digital twin
• Mobile robotics
• Collaborative robotics
• Efficient actuators
• CAPM & CMMS
• Digital instructions & MES
• Online quality control
• IoT & Communications
• Big Data, AI & Predictive maintenance
• Augmented reality
• Virtual reality
• Additive manufacturing for tools, etc.

Educational activities:

- Board wiring
- System configuration and commissioning
- System control
- Troubleshooting (corrective maintenance)
- Improvement activities

Key features:

Genuine industrial system with modern technologies (asynchronous motorization, brushless, USS communication, Profinet, Ethernet, communicating circuit breakers)

Several operating modes, including "on-the-fly" filling with linear axis synchronization using brushless motors at conveyor speed

Improvement activities

Supplied with Tia Portal and WinCC programming software for programming the programmable logic controller and dialogue terminal

Possible extensions to the ErmaSmart flexible production line

References:

DX20: Brushless axis drive (Generation 2 with IO-Link)

UC90: Fault box option for electrical cabinet, remotely configurable on tablet (not supplied)

UC52: Visual instructions option on the Tulip open application environment and touchscreen tablet, for a production operator or maintenance technician (with Tulip Standard in free Academic Version - purchase of a Tulip Edge IO required for the deployment site)

UC41: Siemens remote console option on iPad tablet (included)

IO00: Electrical and pneumatic measurement sensors (IO-Link) option for monitoring the power, flow, and electrical and pneumatic consumption of a machine equipped with an IO-Link master and supervision and preventive maintenance software

Videos:

Dosaxe DX20