Frugalpac 4
Frugal Bottles are manufactured from two paperboard blanks and require complex gluing patterns that can be tailored to different profiles.  
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2022/10/28
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Playing it safe in the assembly of MRI machines
The future belongs to human-robot cooperation. System builder BEC developed such a collaborative solution for ...
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The future belongs to human-robot cooperation. System builder BEC developed such a collaborative solution for Siemens Healthineers. It inserts coils weighing several tonnes precisely into the magnets of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. Electric cylinders from Festo, which ensure the coils are securely gripped, play a crucial role here.  
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BEC – Cooperation with Festo
Hans-Günther Nusseck, project manager at BEC (left), and Timo Kloker, sales engineer at Festo, discussing the use of the Festo electric cylinders in the system.
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BEC – Hans-Günther Nusseck
Hans-Günther Nusseck, project manager at BEC 
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BEC – Servo drive CMMT-ST
Practical: the drive amplifiers, in this case the servo drives CMMT-ST, are mounted on the robot itself, rather than on the gripper system. This frees up space on the gripper and makes it less complicated.
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BEC – Supports with electric cylinders
Flexible, robust and precise: the supports with electric cylinders from Festo need to be powerful enough to be able to hold the coils weighing up to 1.5 tonnes, but at the same time not so powerful that they damage them.
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BEC – High-tech gripper system
High-tech gripper system on the articulated arm robot. It is vital that the coils do not twist or slip when the gripper picks them up and inserts them into the magnets; the tolerance for inserting the coils into the magnets is no more than 0.5...
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BEC – Insertion of coils into the magnets
Collaborative solution: coils weighing several tonnes are inserted precisely into the magnets of magnetic resonance imaging machines.
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2022/09/10
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Remote IO system taken to a whole new level
The decentralised IO system CPX-AP-I allows compact and lightweight I/O modules as well as the decentralised ...
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The decentralised IO system CPX-AP-I allows compact and lightweight I/O modules as well as the decentralised valve terminals from Festo to be integrated into major host systems in a flexible and scalable way. Another advantage of CPX-AP-I is its seamless connectivity from the field level right through to the cloud, providing access to features such as predictive maintenance. This makes digitalisation incredibly easy.