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Better machines through integrated controls

PLCs and motion controllers are no longer needed in Delta Systems’ flow wrappers since an integrated controls system has become the standard.

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If builders of packaging equipment could eliminate two complex components from their controls architecture—along with the software, training, and logistical support those components require—what kind of packaging equipment might they build? In the case of Delta Systems, the answer is packaging equipment that costs less and has greater flexibility.

The two controls components eliminated in Delta’s case are programmable logic controllers, traditionally used to govern a machine’s operating logic, and motion controllers, the devices that actuate and govern motion. In flow wrappers built by Delta, both of these are replaced by a single integrated controller, the Model C3620 from Beckhoff Automation. It runs Delta Systems’ own SoftFlow™ controls software to govern not only logic and motion but HMI, as well.

“We’ve been using Beckhoff controllers for nearly four years,” says Ed Krug of Delta Systems. “Before that, we built our own industrial PC because no one at the time was providing an integrated controller capable of doing motion, logic, and HMI.”

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