Car body shops

The car body shop is marked through the manufacturing of various body variants in cycles of half a minute where the numerous robots generate high temperatures, vibrations, welding splashes and electromagnetic fields.

In order to ensure a high availability and shorter start-up times, setup and boot-up times of the systems, Phoenix Contact provides a uniform engineering concept based on PC WORX in addition to resistant FO cabling with preventive diagnostics.

Since engineering constitutes a large part of the total costs of a system, it must be as easy as possible. As a modular system-based data center, the Eplan Engineering Center, for example, ensures automatic generation of circuit diagrams and programs.

A visualization assistant integrated in the PC WORX automation software is then used to automatically generate the visualization from the relevant program in the desired national language. This helps in saving considerable time during start-up.

Quint-Power power supply units from Phoenix Contact maximize the system availability with the SFB technology (Selective Fuse breaking Technology), six times the nominal current for 12 ms.

For the first time, standard power circuit-breakers can thus be triggered reliably and quickly. Defective current paths are selectively switched off and important system parts remain in operation. Moreover, the preventive function monitoring reports critical operating modes before they can lead to errors.