Compact Industry 4.0 Solutions at your Fingertips

This compact Industry 4.0 training equipment is designed for benchtop use.

Smart Factory

SKU# AU4956

Students gain understanding of conveyor systems, sensing systems, pneumatic pick and place technology, DC motor drives, and stepper motor drives. The factory includes a number of coloured discs made from plastic and other materials. A conveyor belt moves these pieces into the factory, where user programmed sensors sort the discs into multiple rejection bins. Some are picked off the conveyor by a suction device and a stepper motor-controlled gantry sorts the discs into appropriately coloured containers.

The smart factory is completely self-contained and can be stored away in one of our standard trays. The smart factory can be used with Siemens (or other brand) 12V or 24V) PLC and is also compatible with our MIAC .

Smart Software

The Smart Factory is controlled in one of two ways. Users can either opt to control using two of our dsPIC driven MIAC controllers, which are educational PLC’s and perfect for younger students to understand the capabilities and possibilities of industrial smart factories.

Alternatively our Siemens add-on for the smart Factory, gives students the ability to program the system using an industrial grade S7-1200PLC. This is provided on a DIN rail bracket with adaptor modules. As a Siemens education partner, we can also provide you with software to control these upon request.

Learning objectives:

Factory control and automation systems
Software design for automation
DC motor and stepper drives
Conveyor and gantry systems
Vacuum pick and place systems
Component sensing and sorting
System design with more than one controller (some systems)

The Smart Factory is compatible with the AllCode robot arm production cell, which can be added to provide a powerful and interesting Industry 4.0 solution.

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The Smart Factory is compatible with the AllCode robot arm production cell. This can be added to provide a powerful Industry 4.0 learning solution. By introducing a programmable robot arm, that acts in the same way as an industrial robot, users can take their learning a step further.
The robot arm production cell can be programmed from any Bluetooth or Wi-Fi supporting programming language including Flowcode, MATLAB or LabVIEW and many others. Flowcode allows users to use G codes and a pendant as though in a real factory environment.

Students create a counter sorting program in which the Robot Arm will collect plastic counters and using the colour sensor, they are sorted into appropriate collection bins. The system can be operated manually or using internet communications, students can implement a handshaking system to automate the process.
The full working smart factory system, including the robot arm takes all parts of the system and combines them in to a powerful learning tool for Industry 4.0 study. At this point, the students are able to see the PLC controlling the gantry, conveyor and the robot arm system all working in cohesion.