10 years' success in the Middle Kingdom - Sick

SICK insight 2/2004
Bar code scanners at Phoenix Pharma in the Czech Republic Safe punching machines Applications 09
SICK scanners at the Czech Republic’s largest pharmaceutical distributor
Phoenix: commissioning rises from the ashes
Phoenix, the Czech Republic’s top pharmaceutical distributor, has
completely revamped commissioning at its nationwide distribution
centres – with SICK scanner networks. The old documentation lies in
ashes (so to speak) and, in its place, bar codes and Profibus have given
Phoenix flight.
New commissioning processes at Phoenix Pharma controlled by SICK scanner networks
>> More than two dozen CLV 420 barcode
scanners have started work at a
recently equipped first depot. With the
help of CDB 420 connection boxes,
a SICK-CAN scanner network was created
without any major installation
problems and connected to the host
computer via Profibus. A CMC 400 Connection
Module Cloning was also integrated
in each connection box.
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You can obtain further product
information on the Internet at:
www.sick.de/insight/en
More about the customer:
www.mypin.cz and www.phoenix-ag.de
Protection and PSDI mode with the C 4000
Safer punching machines with greater productivity
Customers of punching machine producer
Busch in Seevetal, Germany,
profit doubly from the use of C 4000
Standard safety light curtains on the
machines: operators are reliably protected
against the risk of accidents,
and PSDI mode increases machine
performance by up to 30%.
>> Labels, brochures, credit cards,
children’s books and saving books are
typical examples of punched products.
“Naturally, with sharp blades and
punching pressures of 5.7 tonnes,
safety is our top priority”, says owner
Burkhardt Busch. “Non-contact monitoring
with C 4000 light curtains
means that we can also offer our customers
production advantages.”
“Clonable” parameter sets minimise
parameterisation
These plug-in memory modules store
all the “inheritance” information of
the connected bar code scanner. Thus
new scanners can be “cloned” by
back-transfer as often as required. This
allows individual devices to be exchanged
very rapidly and without
extra parameterisation costs.
Standard safety with additional
advantages
Busch punching machines are
equipped with the C 4000 Standard
that has a protective field height of
300 mm and a resolution of 14 mm.
The light curtain’s signals are evaluated
in the UE 402 switching unit. The
advantage: in this way the machine can
be operated in either single- or doublebreak
mode. Thus there is neither a
mechanical barrier to be opened and
closed on insertion or removal of the
goods to be punched, nor does the
punching process require manual initiation.
This simplest possible handling
saves a lot of time and therefore shortens
the machine cycle. “Compared to
Pharma commissioning without
side effects
The new commissioning processes at
Phoenix prevent the “side effects” of
manual data handling such as delays,
lack of transparency or spurious commissioning.
Each order is stored on
computer and printed out on a card
placed inside the commissioning boxes,
which are also externally labelled with
a permanent bar code. CLV 420 scanners
along the conveyor system read
the bar code on the box and guide it to
the first storage location for the goods.
These are placed in the box. After acknowledgement,
the box travels to the
storage location for the next article.
When the order has been completely
processed, the box is transported to
the despatch area. Online transmission
of scanner data within the network
ensures optimum synchronisation of
material and information flow.
using mechanical protection, machine
productivity has been increased by up
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to 30% thanks to the C 4000 Standard
and the possibility of employing PSDI
mode”, confirms Burkhardt Busch.
www.buschgraph.de
Light curtain on an automatic punching
machine
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