Even before Industry 4.0 was introduced, the use of RFID for tool coding was quite successful. Premium AEROTEC, the world's top supplier of Tier 1 aerostructures, has been using this technology for decades to ensure quality and production processes. Today, Balluff's tool ID system is used throughout the entire process of metal cutting production, providing the prerequisites for intelligent networking, while at the same time further optimizing the use of tools and continuously improving the production process to ensure product quality.
The BIS V from Balluff communicates on a wide range of frequencies. As a result, Premium AEROTEC's controllers can not only use robust and reliable low-frequency system components (LF, 70...) in metal environments. 455 kHz) while also using high-frequency components (HF, 13.56 MHz). For the commercial military aerospace company, it is crucial that the processing unit's multiple interfaces can be integrated into different machines, as it is suitable for the world's most common bus systems such as Profibus, Profinet, EtherCAT, CC-Link and Ethernet/IP, as well as a web server with an Ethernet interface. Function modules for multiple general-purpose controller OEMs can be configured faster.
Around 30 machining centers in Premium AEROTEC are equipped with tool ID read/write heads and BIS V processing units.
The BIS V processing unit communicates at a wide range of frequencies and provides a comprehensive interface for worldwide bus systems.
The BIS M read/write heads from Balluff are available in a variety of sizes, round and strip, to meet the diverse needs of the different machining centers of Premium AEROTEC.
The cutting tools are prepared in the Zöhler tool setter, and the relevant tool data is written to the BIS M data carrier on the tool holder using the tool ID read/write head.
The existing tools and tool holders are fitted with data carriers (so-called coding blocks) that are perfectly matched. Premium AEROTEC opted for the BIS M model as a data carrier, which operates at a frequency of 13.56 MHz with an unlimited number of read and write cycles. Daniel Weishaupt, Head of Tool Repair and Commissioning at Premium AEROTEC in Augsburg, Germany, says: "We felt that the BIS M version was used because the coding blocks comply with the ISO 15693 and ISO 14443A standards for RFID and are available from different manufacturers. The person in charge sees this product as a safety guarantee for production. Some 30,000 tools in the tool holders of Premium AEROTEC are currently equipped with the BIS M data carrier from Balluff.
Premium AEROTEC has equipped around 30,000 tools in the tool holders with the BIS M data carrier from Balluff.
The Balluff BIS M data carrier in the tool holder complies with the open ISO 15693 and ISO 14443A standards for RFID
Mr. Weishaupt adds: "The BIS M RFID system is particularly important for the high quality of the data at high speeds, as we are now able to read 30 percent faster than before. ”
As a result, Balluff's tool ID is a key technology in Premium AEROTEC's intelligent networked production, enabling the company to enter the clouds of Industry 4.0.
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