Guide To Suppliers

The revolution in product transport has arrived, bringing with it a new age in agile manufacturing and enabling true mass customisation for profitable production down to batches of one. ACOPOStrak is the latest innovation from B&R Industrial Automation and has been designed and developed to specifically satisfy the need for adaptive and connected manufacturing.

More than ever before, machine and system manufacturers are being confronted with demands for increased productivity and availability. At the same time, pressure is constantly building to reduce the manufacturing costs for production machines.

Paige West, Editor of DPA & Connectivity, spoke to Alan Conn, Managing Director, B&R Industrial Automation about the move towards mass customisation and how smart factory motion control solutions from B&R help companies strive for that ‘Batch Size 1’ production.

Modular applications can now be implemented even more easily. B&R's new software component, mapp IO, makes it possible to add I/O modules at any time.

B&R is introducing a hypervisor for its automation system. This software allows Windows or Linux to run alongside B&R's own real-time operating system.

Following approval by EU competition authorities, the acquisition became legally effective on July 6, 2017 and will operate as an independent business unit within ABB.

B&R has set another benchmark in integrated safety technology with its new blackout mode.

At this year's interpack (Booth E62, Hall 6), B&R will be showcasing SuperTrak – a versatile, intelligent conveyor system that represents a key contribution to Packaging 4.0.