Powerlink planar motor system ACOPOS 6D

transportfor the food industry

With ACOPOS 6D, B&R heralds a new era of manufacturing. Magnetic levitating shuttles move individual products freely through the machine. Gone are the days when conventional transport systems imposed rigidly defined timing on the production process. ACOPOS 6D is ideal for small-batch production with frequent changeover between products of different designs and dimensions. ACOPOS 6D is based on the principle of magnetic levitation: Shuttles with integrated permanent magnets float over the surface of electromagnetic motor segments. The modular motor segments are 240 x 240 millimeters in size and can be arranged freely in any shape. A variety of shuttle sizes carry payloads of 0.6 to 14 kilograms and reach speeds of up to 2 meters per second. They can move freely in two-dimensional space, rotate and tilt along three axes and offer precise control over the height of levitation. All together, that gives them six degrees of motion control freedom. Conventional transport systems consume a lot of plant floor real estate just moving products from A to B – without making any real contribution to value-adding production processes. With the introduction of magnetic levitation technology, the traditional model of linear product transport is now dissolving to reveal a multidimensional processing space. A space where the boundaries between transport and processing disappear. In addition to carrying products, the transport system also executes multi-axis processing tasks – adding essential flexibility in a fraction of the space.