Syntegon: Product handling platform with Vision and XPlanar
Syntegon, a global supplier of process and packaging technology for the food and pharmaceutical industries, presented a product handling platform at Interpack 2023 for secondary packaging. XPlanar for product transport and Vision hardware optical quality control form the core…
Beckhoff opent nieuw kantoor in Noord Nederland
Automatiseringsbedrijf Beckhoff Automation BV opende in juli een kantoor aan de Leonard Springerlaan 35 in Groningen. Het centrale hoofdkantoor van Beckhoff Automation Duitsland bevindt zich in Verl en Beckhoff is vertegenwoordigd met vestigingen in meer dan zeventig landen wereldwijd. In Nederland heeft Beckhoff een hoofdvestiging in Haarlem en sales en support kantoren in Eindhoven en Enschede. Vanwege de wens voor lokale ondersteuning…
Beckhoff Automation expands in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany
The Verl-based company is planning to move into a new central warehouse in the Aurea industrial park in Rheda-Wiedenbrück near its headquarters to expand its logistics capacity. The strong sales growth in recent years and the positive outlook for the future…
Tech United Wereldkampioen met EtherCAT voetbalrobots
Tech United prolongeerde op zondag 9 juli in Bordeaux, de wereldtitel robotvoetbal in de Midsize league, door in de finale met 6-2 van de Falcons te winnen.De EtherCAT voetbalrobots kunnen snelheden tot wel 7 meter…
Highly dynamic pick-and-place applications with ATRO and XPlanar
By expanding the Beckhoff portfolio with the ATRO modular plug-and-play robotics system, machine builders and users have the opportunity to implement fully integrated automation solutions for the first time. The seamless integration of the robot solution into the Beckhoff…
ATRO in a multi-arm robot format
The modular industrial robot system ATRO (Automation Technology for Robotics) from Beckhoff was first presented to the public in 2022. Fast-forward to today, and more link modules are now being added to increase the flexibility of the ATRO system even further,…
The XPlanar greatly increases testing capacity and throughput
In the fall of 2021, Beckhoff began to completely rethink the way it carried outfinal inspections of I/O components. Its aim was to significantly increase testingcapacity and throughput, even though many different types of terminals are produced.The system, which was…
20 years of EtherCAT: Looking back and into the future
The ultra-fast EtherCAT developed by Beckhoff and presented at Hannover Messe 2003 has already been used successfully for 20 years and has long since established itself as an open, global standard for real-time Ethernet…
XPlanar track management
The setpoint generation for the movers is handled by the track management: Users can define free 2D tracks. The movers follow these tracks intelligently and automatically avoid collisions. Complex and superposed 6D movements based on CNC with GCode or CAM and free 2D movements…
New Automation Technology for smart fulfillment operations
Discover how Beckhoff’s innovations in mechatronics and robotics technologies, like XPlanar and ATRO, are helping to meet new challenges in the material handling and intralogistics industry by completely rethinking product handling and transport. Watch the video