{"id":1310,"date":"2025-02-20T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectservice.com\/revamping-elettronico-robot-abb-speedy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:34:33","slug":"abb-speedy-robot-electronic-revamping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectservice.com\/en\/abb-speedy-robot-electronic-revamping\/","title":{"rendered":"ABB Speedy Robot Electronic Revamping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ABB Speedy robot is an anthropomorphic robot<\/strong> with two polar axes often used in packaging machines as a fast “pick and place” in the 2000s, equipped with dedicated hardware and decommissioned around 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE CHALLENGE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unilever\u00a0<\/a>Hungary<\/a>‘s Ny\u00edrb\u00e1tor facility needed to extend the life of a case packer equipped with an\u00a0ABB Speedy robot that was mechanically still in excellent condition. To do this, it was necessary to upgrade the electronic control part, which was no longer available on the market either as hardware or software support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unilever’s request was to replace the old dedicated motion controller with a new one that was easily available on the market, to keep the Siemens S7-300 series PLC that managed the entire case packer, and to limit production downtime to one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE SOLUTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on our experience<\/strong> in robotics, Project Service decided to use a Siemens Simotion D-series with Sinamics S120 solution after several laboratory tests of the available kinematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To meet Unilever’s request to limit production downtime to one week, we completely simulated the technical solution in the laboratory, replicating the new hardware situation for the case packer to be upgraded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESULTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The installation of the new configuration was completed within the time period requested<\/strong> by Unilever in January 2017, and also brought about production improvements thanks to the increased speed of the robot with the new kinematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n