Create a pick-and-place application in minutes

To create such applications, B&R offers a ready-made software solution for pick-and-place robots from its mapp Technology software toolbox. This allows applications to be configured intuitively by selecting ready-made function blocks. These are linked together in the editor, as with other…

Top tech in the tunnel

The Ceneri Base Tunnel connects the northern and southern parts of the Swiss Canton of Ticino and serves as the southern approach to the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Yet the tunnel, which opened in September 2020, is more than just…

Moving workpieces and driving innovation

Twice as many product variants with half the setup time – that’s what special-purpose machine builder Harrandt has achieved with a redesign of its measuring, testing and assembly lines. The heart of the innovative new solution is a transport system based on B&R’s…

Digital Manufacturing Ireland

B&R Industrial Automation, is extremely proud to have supplied machine automation products together with ABB Robotics robots, for the line build and digital technology demonstrators for a complete digital factory into Digital Manufacturing Ireland (DMI) in Limerick Ireland. Read more

High performance over a smaller footprint

Have you ever wondered, how you could reduce your footprint, without influencing the performance negatively? If yes, here’s our answer to your question: It’s Adaptive Manufacturing. Using an adaptive machine, like JLS Automation, you will no longer face…

New backplane bus of B&R increases performance of X20 system

The advantages of this new bus are particularly apparent in applications that involve many I/O modules or high data volume but where short cycle times are imperative. It is even possible to set up two separate cycle times so that less time-critical data…

RobotStudio Tutorial 

The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to connect the RobotStudio simulation to a PLC simulation environment that has an OPC UA server. In this example B&R’s Automation Studio is used.

Off-the-chart speed with an off-the-shelf solution

Chances are, you can point to a few key processes in your industry where timing is especially critical – where precise execution is essential to the quality and quantity of your output. When every microsecond matters, even the most powerful PLC can be…