AFB training factory

Optimum operator control
Whether via touch panel, visualisation system or control panel, all the stations and the entire training factory can be operated and monitored in a highly user-friendly way.   

Everything in hand
Whether bottle or six-pack, the professional handling units in the AFB training factory ensure a safe, precise, fast material flow.  

Tried and proven
The MPS® stations, which have been deployed for training purposes thousands of times all over the world, supply the caps in the training factory. The stations particularly enable an optimum level of highly sophisticated training in mechatronics.

Visualisation
Either an overview of the complete plant or access to each individual station is available; the visualisation system at the AFB training factory permits monitoring of all signals and provides trend graphs of the analogue process variables, with remote access to the various functions and monitoring of all processes. All training factory stations communicate via TCP-IP with the visualisation computer.

RFID option
Full tracking and documentation of the entire production process is demanded in more and more areas of industry. The AFB training factory also makes this possible: Production data such as the recipe or batch identifier are stored on the mobile data carriers fixed to each individual bottle and can be checked prior to shipping. This means that state-of-the-art RFIDtechnology can now be integrated highly demonstratively into automation training.

Training content
The multitude of stations and the technologies embedded in them permit an investigation of almost all relevant areas of control and automation technology.

• Use of RFID technology
• Vision systems and camera inspection
• Use and programming of PLCs
• Application of various handling devices and grippers
• Application of various electrical drives (DC, AC)
• Application of frequency converters
• Use of multi-axis handling systems for handling and palletising
• Networking sensors and actuators via AS-interface
• Use and commissioning of a CAN network
• Networking automated systems with Ethernet TCP-IP
• Measurement and control of electrical and process engineering variables such as level, flow rate, pressure and temperature
• Process operation and monitoring, system management
• Selection, deployment and control of process fittings