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Modernisation of a high rack warehouse. Renewal of the control system- and drive
Solution
Milupa GmbH & Co.KG, Friedrichsdorf



Task
The company Milupa in Friedrichsdorf has a 6-lane high rack warehouse with the corresponding conveyor
technique for the input and output of euro-pallets, which is operated by the logistic-service provider DANZAS.


exchange from the existing gateway DEC 300 against a SPS system control as data concentrator

renewal of the IPC–control of the conveyor plant against a SPS-control

renewal of the IPC–control of the 6 RBG’s by 6 new SPS–controls with modern drive- and control engineering.

renewal of the drives and gears for the 6 RBG’s.

application of a PC–plant visualisation for an improvement of the plant availability.

Application of a remote transmission of data’s for purposes of service and maintenance.


Due to the high utilisation of production of the total plants the company Aberle Steuerungstechnik GmbH has
obligated itself to limit the hold-up time at most 104 hours, i. e. this period was available for the conversion of the RBG’s 2 – 6 as well as the conveyor engineering inclusive the particular start-up.

The company Aberle Automation GmbH & Co. KG has been commissioned as a direct contractor with the supply, programming and startup of the total control system as well as the required replacements for the conveyor technique of pallets and 6 RBG’s on site.

Integrated components
For communication between storage management computer, data concentrator and visualisation-PC has been used the existing LAN-ETHERNET/protocol TCP/IP. As data concentrator has been utilised a Siemens S7-
416-2DP with Profibus-DP activation for local control of
the conveyor technique.

The networking of the 6 RBGcontrols to the data concentrator effected over a Profibus- FDL. For the 6 RBG-controls have been utilised a static
SPS S7-315-2 DP which is communicated over a data
photoelectric barrier with the on board RBG-control
cabinet. Furthermore has been transmitted a new concept
of manual handling via pluggable Siemens Operator-
Panels OP 17 on the RBG-controls.

Solution
Due to a tight planned and organised conversion concept of the company Aberle Automation GmbH & Co. KG in
connection with the companies MILUPA and DANZAS it was possible to realise a very close period of time.
On 2 shifts operations have been converted parallel the mechanics and electrical engineering.

Advantages for the customers
Due to the utilised components the company MILUPA has a plant today which is provided with updated driveand
control engineering. The new visualisation unit on point I as well as the pluggable Operator-Panels OP17
give everytime an information about the current plant situation.

Because the Aberle Automation GmbH & Co. KG appeared as a main contractor thus the company MILUPA
had not has any problems with the interfaces during the critical time of the conversion. For the customers
were always clear selected and competent contact persons available.
   
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