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Digital Conveyor Lines

Modularization and digitalization increase the flexibility, scalability, and availability of your conveyor technology

Intralogistics, Digital Conveyor Lines, Modularization

The best way to meet your customers' rapidly changing requirements is with modular, flexibly scalable conveyor lines. If these also need to be highly available and operate without back pressure, there is no way around an efficient digitization strategy. The trend is moving away from centrally controlled and driven lines toward decentralized control modules and roller drives directly on site.

You can modularize future-proof conveyor technology with:  

  • Block I/O modules with integrated MDR control via CAN
  • IP67 power supplies with 24 and 48 volts and M12 power
  • Ethernet switches in IP20 or IP67
  • IP67 safety controllers

Connect four: Take advantage of our experience in all four segments of production logistics

Material tracking

  • Materials receipt and management are automated
  • Stock changes are recorded and automatically offset through ordering processes, preventing stock shortages.
  • Efficient warehouse management and production planning based on reliable materials stock data in ERP and warehouse management systems (WMS)
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Production tracking

  • Correct production conditions and quality plus the flow of materials are monitored and ensured by tool identification on the machine
  • Secured material allocation guarantees high product quality and eliminates waste
  • Production control: Production steps are checked or triggered automatically
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Warehouse management

  • Products, trays, skids, workpiece carriers and reusable containers are uniquely marked and identified
  • Minimized storage costs and procurement times thanks to transparent information on all storage locations
  • Routes and positions of goods and products can be traced without gaps
  • Picking and shipping processes are transparently tracked
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Picking and shipping

  • Robots or RFID-equipped industrial vehicles pick items automatically
  • The content of each shipment is checked using the digital picking list
  • Fewer complaints due to incorrectly picked or incorrectly delivered goods
  • Better utilization of logistics units and optimized route planning thanks to a reliable database
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How to turn objects into smart objects

RFID connects physical objects to data sets and IT systems. No matter what kind of object you want to link to your individual system landscape, we create the connection.

Key technology for digitalization
IIoT, the Industrial Internet of Things, requires the use of intelligent industrial components that allow physical objects in production logistics to be present over the Internet. Regardless of whether these are containers with raw materials, components, preliminary products or finished products — equipped with RFID tags, all components can communicate with each other as smart objects in the network. This makes RFID a key technology of the IIoT. 

Information generation in a suitable context
The information of each Smart Object is obtained via strategically placed reading points. Depending on the application, they are forwarded directly to higher-level systems such as an ERP, or they are transferred via an interface to the PLC or the Turck Vilant Middleware. In this way, Turck's system solution brings the data of the Smart Objects to the level of enterprise applications and plant automation systems. Here, relevant information for your processes and decisions is generated in a suitable context.

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More efficient processes

  • Complex manual work steps and errors are minimized
  • Flow of goods is consistently identified and tracked
  • Multiple tags can be detected at the same time
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Improved quality control

  • Exclude errors, such as when changing tools or feeding through materials
  • Full transparency in the supply chain due to the clear allocation of goods
  • Tamper protection via individual coding
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Future-proof investment

  • Complete system solution from TURCK; can be extended at any time
  • All RFID technology and data processing are based on global standards
  • Combination of HF and UHF recording for complex or changed requirements

What are the advantages of RFID?

More solutions with RFID tracking

See how users benefit from the use of RFID in production logistics in the application examples: practical and clear.