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Man­u­fac­tur­er-inde­pen­dent Wind­ing Application

The use of PLC-based modules enables the drives to be controlled regardless of the manufacturer in the operating modes dancer or tension control.

Reg­u­la­tion of the winder

To process wind­ing goods such as wires, fiber optics, foils or tex­tile webs, it is nec­es­sary to reg­u­late the winder and thus the ten­sion of the mate­r­i­al in order to enable con­tin­u­ous mate­r­i­al trans­port. Var­i­ous con­trol meth­ods can be used.


Indi­vid­ual man­u­fac­tur­ers offer these reg­u­la­tions as part of their con­vert­er tech­nol­o­gy. The advan­tage is that with this imple­men­ta­tion a very fast reg­u­la­tion with­out SPS inter­ven­tion is pos­si­ble. How­ev­er, this results in a depen­den­cy on the man­u­fac­tur­er and only a small trans­fer of infor­ma­tion to the high­er-lev­el con­trol. In order to be able to offer our cus­tomers ven­dor-inde­pen­dent solu­tions, espe­cial­ly in case of retro­fits, Mar­cel Mar­tis devel­oped a PLC-based solu­tion as part of his bach­e­lor thesis.

Test-Set­up

In order to be able to test the soft­ware under approx­i­mate­ly real con­di­tions, a mod­el from Fis­chertech­nik was built with elec­tri­cal hard­ware. A feed unit in the mid­dle between the two wind­ing units ensures a con­stant web speed. In a real appli­ca­tion, for exam­ple, a cal­en­der could be used here. The dancer reg­u­la­tion was imple­ment­ed on the left side. With this method, the mate­r­i­al is guid­ed behind the winder via a ver­ti­cal­ly freely mov­able dancer. The dancer should always stay in a mid­dle posi­tion, the reg­u­la­tion reacts to devi­a­tions from this posi­tion. The dis­place­ment mea­sure­ment is car­ried out by a slide poten­tiome­ter. For the sec­ond method, the ten­sion con­trol, a fixed deflec­tion roller is used, with force sen­sors attached to the foun­da­tion. Here the ten­sion is used as a con­trol variable.

Expan­sion of the pos­si­ble use

The Siemens library LCon is used for the PLC-based con­trol. It already con­tains all the nec­es­sary com­po­nents for com­pen­sat­ing of fric­tion and accel­er­a­tion and for imple­ment­ing the var­i­ous con­trol process­es. The mod­ules were used and para­me­ter­ized in soft­ware for con­trol­ling the entire sys­tem. Using the mod­el, a com­plete man­u­fac­tur­er-inde­pen­dent imple­men­ta­tion of both oper­at­ing modes could be achieved.
All data aris­ing in the process are vis­i­ble on the user inter­face on the sys­tem, con­trol para­me­ters can be adjust­ed there direct­ly. This not only results in greater flex­i­bil­i­ty, but also faster com­mis­sion­ing is pos­si­ble. The mod­el is used for fur­ther devel­op­ments and training.

Contact Person
QA Mitarbeiter Marcel Martis
Marcel Martis, B. Eng.
Software Engineer
Specializations: Control Engineering, Motion Technology
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