Weyerhaeuser’s Flexo Printing Facilities Streamline Plate Mounting

Siemens Automation

The Leader machine includes a palate of high-tech control system components developed by Siemens Energy & Automation, which has provided a total solution for the electrical components in the machine. Such systems include its Simotion® product. Most machines require motion control (positioning, synchronous operation), PLC functionality, and technology tasks (i.e. pressure control and temperature control). The fusion of these functions into one system—as with Simotion—has a number of advantages, such as lower engineering costs and higher machine performance, time-critical interfaces between individual components are eliminated, and simple, uniform and transparent programming and diagnostics for the entire machine with a single tool. The focus here is placed on a simple and flexible solution for numerous motion control tasks.