ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE COVER STORY WHY ‘TIME-IN-MARKET’ IS
BECOMING JUST AS IMPORTANT AS ‘TIME-TO-MARKET’
Individualisation, digitalisation and efficiency require easily adaptable and future-proof systems from the machine/system builders. Lenze’s answer to these challenges is clear, as Daniel Lindemann, head of product management automation systems, comments
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indemann starts by explaining the challenges we all face today: “We live in an era where typical innovation cycles
are becoming shorter and shorter, but at the same time mechanical engineering is dependent on continuity. As a result, ‘time-in- market’ is currently becoming just as important as ‘time-to-market’. By this I mean that it is becoming more important for customers to opt for architectures that remain available in the long term, because they don’t want to have to change their architecture every now and then.” “In software development, the trend is
increasingly towards integrated solutions across the chain. This is because modular software is the differentiator for the future of engineering. With the Easy System Designer, for example, we are able to guide and support our customers from the first idea to the finished
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machine. That entire process is digitized, so the digital twin is no longer a utopia.”
Lenze can play a crucial role in allowing the customer to better play his own competences. Which tools do you use for that? DL: The approach via Lenze FAST is a perfect example of our approach. That platform first of all allows the machine
to be modularised and to use pre-tested core functions. This reduces the commissioning time and gives the user the freedom to work out his core competence. In Lenze FAST, ready-to-use templates
ensure shorter development times and give the user the freedom to work out his core competence. The second perspective of FAST is the adaptation of existing machines. Wherever
possible and useful, the parameterisation can be supported or replaced by automatisms from FAST. There are already several modules in our toolbox, such as learning the diameter of a roll in a winding application, learning the probe window for a register check, autotuning for temperature control and drive, identification of inertia and friction, oscillation compensation for stacker cranes, brake test and gravel-in and load detection for lifting applications. In addition to the ready-made or pre-designed
modules in IEC61131, we also offer a ‘FAST Framework’. This means that, for example, standard machine functions for infrastructure and machine optimisation no longer need to be programmed – they are already available automatically. Standard mechanisms – such as error handling – must be harmonised across the entire product range of the system provider
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