Training
B&R
APROL Training
This weekend we run tests on our new web application feature before pushing live ~ the aim is to create living and breathing playgrounds for sharing and exploring stories and information.
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We’ll begin with opening up and expanding our Training Block on the Services tab of the website ~ there we’ll post content about both
a) the training we participate in as designers and as managers, and
b) the training we offer to clients, apprentices, and employees.
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We hope you join us for the next stage in our learning curve, and here’s a sneak peak of Mulemba at B&R Aprol training in Peterborough. OCT 2018 CLIP.
B&R
Skoda Aprol Case Study
“The investment in condition monitoring has already paid off through a significant increase in production capacity and zero unscheduled downtime.
Thanks to this project, the sprockets in our paint shop are working perfectly, without a single fault.
We’ve gone from 2,180 automobiles per day to 2,200. So we’re already planning to implement early-warning diagnostics for our ventilation system as well.”
Marek Melčák, Paint Shop Maintenance Coordinator, ŠKODA
B&R
B&R Partnership
2M has been a B&R Qualified Solutions Partner for a decade. As such, we’re always curious to learn about B&R’s latest offerings to market. APROL is B&R’s process control system, optimizing data collection and processing to allow the system to monitor, adjust, and control with real time responses on the go.
B&R
APROL Launch
Launching to market in 2016, it’s interesting to see how APROL has been integrated into plants since then, and the impact that it’s having.
We’ll be presenting our own APROL condition monitoring application at B&R Innovation Day in April at the Williams Formula One Conference Centre.
We’re very much looking forward to seeing and hearing how other partners and clients have embedded the system and used it to their advantage also.
Control Cabinet Build
What it takes to build a robust & tidy Control Cabinet at 2M
Here we are on Day 1.
The enclosure door is marked ready for cut-out in accordance with the electrical panel-drawings layout details which you can also see in this photo.
Control Cabinet Build
Here's the complete panel cut-out using jigsaw and metal hole-punches.
All bare edges have been dressed and painted with the relevant RAL colour.
Control Cabinet Build
Here are the handy hole-punches used to make the holes for push-buttons and lamps fitted in the cabinet doors.
Look out for our upcoming updates next week including "arm fitting" and much more.
Control Cabinet Build
Here is our empty control panel. This one is made out of mild steel, sprayed to a standard RAL colour.
Cabinet specifications meet client requirements, taking into consideration environmental site factors.
Control Cabinet Build
Rounding up Day 1, here's the back-plate which has been removed from the cabinet, ready to be laden and fitted with components.
Control Cabinet Build
On Day 2, we can see the removed back-plate with components laid out according to the electrical layouts, ready for marking and drilling.
Control Cabinet Build
At the end of Day 2.
The back-plate is beginning to take shape with fitted components in accordance to the parts-list and refitted into the control cabinet ready for wiring.
Control Cabinet Build
Here we on Day 4.
All the A/C (alternating current) wiring is complete.
At a glance, you may notice a:
- PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)
- Circuit breakers
- Contactors
- Drives
- Fuse Switch
Control Cabinet Build
Here we have continuation of wiring with all the DC and control/PLC wiring.
This is the 6 Day milestone on this one-man control-cabinet build job.
Control Cabinet Build
All wiring completed, awaiting trunking lid.
Control Cabinet Build
On Day 8 all trunking-lidding is complete.
It is now time to re-fit the panel doors.
Control Cabinet Build
Panel doors fitted, you'll note the fan used to moderate temperature inside this control cabinet.
There's also a drawing-pocket mounted to the inside of a door as standard. This is where the most up-to date electrical drawings for the control cabinet will be stored, alongside completed Hardware Checklists prior to dispatch.
Control Cabinet Build
Ready for testing, here is the final photo on Day 9 to accompany this case study.
Can you notice the isolator-handle that is mounted to the control cabinet door?
PLC & HMI Training
Foundation
- Memory Cards. Procedures programming, correct handling, working with PLC retentive memory.
- HMI Programming & Modification. Hardware and communications, set-up and configuration.
- Working with HMI templates, creating projects, making modifications to projects, and backing up and restoring HMIs.
- Alarms and Buffers. HMI Tags and tag poling.
- IO Fields, bar graphs, and screens, navigation, and object programming.
PLC & HMI Training
- Various aspects of HMI management, including security and setting up new users.
- Network cabling and diagnostics, PROFINET configuration with varying devices.
- Data logging and parameters.
- Profibus networks and cabling. IO and remote access.
- Fault finding, cable faults, and short circuits.
- Remote monitoring on Profibus.
- Communicating with masters. using couplers.
- Working with drives.
- Safety control.
PLC & HMI Training
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