CoreTigo’s Industrial Wireless Technology Enhances Factory Automation Worldwide

While at SPS, CoreTigo will showcase a live demo of its IO-Link Wireless products and applications in the PNO booth (Hall 5, Booth 210). In addition, CoreTigo’s products and joint solutions will be presented at numerous partners’ booths at SPS as detailed below. At Automation Fair, visitors will be able to visit CoreTigo at Stand 1248.

Over the past year, some notable success stories and deployments have been implemented by CoreTigo worldwide across various industries, including Food & Beverage Packaging, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Logistics, and other discrete manufacturing operations. These will be featured and discussed by its team at Automation Fair 2024. Visit CoreTigo to learn more about how IO-Link Wireless is enabling machines and production lines to do more. Some of these success stories include:

Independent Cart Technology & Transport Track Systems
IO-Link Wireless was an integral component for Rotzinger PharmaPack’s adaptive packaging machine (as can be seen in this video), enabling multiple package types and product designs, with automatic changeover – all while in constant motion. Rockwell Automation’s iTRAK system was also equipped with IO-Link Wireless which was instrumental for PFM to create fast and agile packaging machines for a fine-handled food product, by a world-known manufacturer, as was recently discussed at PartnerNetwork Conference EMEA 2024. Both of these also consisted of VAHLE Group’s Contactless Power solutions, enabling the combination of wireless & contactless for full flexibility and agility.

IIOT & Condition Monitoring
Using IO-Link Wireless, CoreTigo offers clients a simple and cost-effective way to retrofit their production floors, allowing hundreds of counting points to be added seamlessly. The combination of Raven's and CoreTigo’s technologies provides a comprehensive, contextual overview of production inefficiencies and losses. This eliminates the need for manual counts and enhances workstation mobility. Raven then analyzes data from operators and existing manufacturing systems, capturing insights into how people and machines spend time on the production floor and accounting for 100% of production time. An additional notable solution, with Emerson for energy conservation and improved sustainability, utilized CoreTigo’s products for both wireless connectivity and edge computing. This allowed for easy deployment, providing complete visibility and control over the air compression required by the machines at any given time, reducing energy consumption, improved maintenance, and cost savings. By utilizing CoreTigo’s TigoGateway 1TE, machine retrofit is made simple and cost-effective by establishing seamless and secure connectivity from everywhere in a facility, providing MQTT publishing up to cloud applications. The TigoGateway also enables to apply business logic and intelligence at the edge, along with real-time control abilities of actuators and devices.

Rotating Units
Rotating components pose a challenge for industrial communication and require special consideration, usually translating into expensive sliprings. IO-Link Wireless is a perfect fit for replacing slip rings in rotary units as can be seen with Machine Builder Pedrini, who integrated it into its machines, enabling consistent and reliable communication, while reducing costs, as seen in this video. In addition, Servomotor specialist Siboni integrated CoreTigo’s technology directly into its new servomotor line, as demonstrated in this video, creating a robust wireless motor line that enables benefits such as real-time wireless control, compatibility with any automation system, and effective data management.

Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems
IO-Link Wireless also enables automated warehouse systems with advanced capabilities due to its speed, reliability, and ease of deployment. Eurofork combined CoreTigo’s IO-Link Wireless solution into its stacker crane conveying unit and box-holding grippers, enabling simultaneous handling of multiple boxes with different dimensions, fewer cables, less wear and tear, and complexity reduction, as illustrated in this video.

Additional solutions and case studies can be found on CoreTigo’s website.

IO-Link Wireless’ Widespread
At Rockwell Automation Fair 2024 CoreTigo’s display will include live demonstrations of its products and abilities, including a wireless and contactless iTRAK smart conveying system showcasing its contribution to Independent Cart Technology (ICT). The system integrates CoreTigo’s wireless communication along with VAHLE’s contactless power, built onto an iTRAK system, resulting in the ultimate flexible and agile machine. This machine enables real-time control of numerous actuators independently on each cart, while in constant high-speed motion.

At SPS, visitors can witness the capabilities of CoreTigo’s IO-Link Wireless technology through numerous demos across the show floor (in alphabetical order):

• Hilscher (hall 5, booth 130) is displaying the IO-Link Wireless Master, as well as the IO-Link Wireless Bridge, supporting various applications.
• ifm (hall 7A, booths 246+302): is featuring a demo, consisting of CoreTigo’s IO-Link Wireless products, complementing its vast array of IO-Link products.
• PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International, hall 5, booth 210) will feature a live demo of IO-Link Wireless with products by CoreTigo and its partners, activated live.
• Siboni (hall 1, booth 249): is displaying live IO-Link Wireless embedded servomotors. These are built on B&R’s ACOPOStrak transport system and integrated with VAHLE Group’s inductive contactless power supply (CPS) solutions.
• STMicroelectronics (hall 4, booth 271) is showcasing their project with CoreTigo and Horsa, conducted within the Hi Connects consortium, for the use of smart devices for the prevention of unscheduled facility interruptions. 1
• Turck (hall 7, booth 250): is demonstrating the various options unlocked by integrating CoreTigo’s products with its own.
• VDMA, the German Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers Association, is hosting CoreTigo at the Technology Stage (hall 3, booth 421) with the lecture "Industrial Wireless Automation Applications with IO-Link Wireless", on the second day of the show – Nov 13, at 4:20 pm. There the audience will learn of the wide array of possibilities enabled by IO-Link Wireless technology.
• Zimmer Group (hall 3A, booth 326): is showcasing high-end grippers, for various applications, connected and controlled via IO-Link Wireless.

Visitors are encouraged to schedule a personal meeting with CoreTigo's on-site team, through CoreTigo’s official website by clicking on these links:
• SPS 2024: https://www.coretigo.com/sps-2024-smart-production-solutions/
• Automation Fair 2024: https://www.coretigo.com/rockwell-automation-fair-2024/

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