Component Based Automation.pdf

Be ahead with modularity –

Save time and money

component based

Save time and money:

Reduce time-to-market

You want to leave the competition behind and get your products to the market as quickly and as

cost-effectively as possible. This requires thorough exhaustion of every potential opportunity for

economizing and efficient organization of internal procedures. Your plants should enable you to

react quickly and flexibly to changing requirements and conditions. And you always need to be

able to offer the market the most innovative solutions.

The answer to rising demands:

consistent modularization

Against the background of constantly increasing pressures of more innovation and lower costs, plant

and machine constructors are depending more and more on the principle of modularization. This approach

has already proven successful in many different sectors. Much of the enormous progress in modular plant

and machine construction is based on the use of distributed intelligence. With increasing frequency,

distributed units with their own intelligent modules are taking over local automation tasks.

Exploit rationalization potential

with the building-block principle

Modularization means that machines and plants can be put together to form autonomous functional

units. These intelligent functional units consist of mechanical components, control technology

and user programs which can fulfill the tasks assigned to them independently and quickly. The

individual modules communicate with one another over standardized interfaces. They can be

pretested and optimized beforehand, which in turn reduces commissioning overhead. And once

modules have been created, they can be reused whenever they are needed.

Distributed intelligence greatly enhances performance, allowing immediate local processing of

time-critical signals. Modularization also makes it possible to implement plants and machines

much more quickly and flexibly, and to adapt or expand them to meet changing demands with

considerably less overhead.