HSB Automation Beta-Z
Linear units with carriage

Handling system gas cylinders - ATB Automation total solution

Conducted by the project team of ATB Automation.
A system composed of XYZ HSB Delta-S linear units with spindle and Stöber EZ-servo motor (X and Z-axis) and HSB-Beta Z linear unit with a toothed belt and Stöber PE-EZ planetary servo motor gear. The system is able to move gas cylinders of 20 kg within a reach of 1000 x 300 x 1000 mm, without external guides.
Central control is the Trio MC4 controller with Delphi communication via OCX commands. The Trio controller controls the Stöber SD6 drives via EtherCAT.

Handling system diamonds with Estun, Stöber and HSB

ATB Automation has been brought in for automation of diamond order picking in a warehouse. Orders are processed by the HSB XYZ system, taking the diamonds via a barcode system from the shelves in the safe. The large XYZ system also places new diamonds to stock. Right next to the safe is a smaller second xyz system. This system loads the orders into and out of containers to and from the big xyz system in the safe.

The linear system consists of HSB-Beta Z linear axes with toothed belts. The large system in the safe has a range of 2500 x 2300 mm in the horizontal plane and 1790 mm in the vertical plane. The maximum velocities and accelerations that are achieved are 1 m/s and 2 m/s2. 

Estun servo drives

The servo system is from the Chinese supplier Estun. The ProNet-EC servo drives are equipped with an EtherCAT bus system. This bus is used for control by a pc equiped with TwinCAT. The compact Estun EMJ servo motors are equiped with Stober PE ME planetary gearboxes and Stöber KL MQ bevel gear units.

ATB Automation: More than componten

The calculations and the selection of the components for an optimal XYZ drive system has been made by the sales engineer of ATB Automation. The supplier of the complete automatic warehouse took care of the commissioning and tuning of the system in close collaboration with one of the ATB Automation software engineers.

Handling plastic cups with HSB gantry and Jakob distance coupling shaft

Stacking of plastic cups in an arc stacker driven by a gantry consisting of servo-driven HSB linear units with timing belts and with a Jakob distance coupling shaft.
This machine is placed in line with a thermoforming machine.

XYZ PCB scanner system with HSB and Trio Motion Technology

Manual testing of often hundreds of components in the circuit board is replaced by a XYZΦ-positioning system in a PCB scanner. The test time is halved thanks to the speed and accuracy of the machine. The risk of skipping components during the test is nil.

Pick & Place laboratory with HSB, Stöber and Trio

Fully automatic laboratory based on a 3-axis servo system for sample analysis in the minerals industry. The pick and place system with a stroke of nearly 5 meters is PC controlled. The control cabinet is designed and implemented by ATB Automation.

Cutting waffles with Trio, Estun, Wanshsin and HSB

A complete solution of ATB Automation has been used for cutting waffles.

Two servo driven lineair systems provide the input and output for plates of waffles. A third axis is used to print a cutting blade.

Central control is doe by the multi-axes Trio MC4N Motion Controller. The movements are recorded and matched in this controller. A Trio Uniplay display is being used for control. The Trio Motion Controller sends the Estun Pronet-EC servo drives real-time via the fast EtherCAT box.

The switchboard, programming and start-up of the system has been carried out by the ATB Automation project team.