Factory Automation

Production and assembly lines

You can optimise the processes of handling, assembling, transferring, and transporting materials in your facility with our solutions for factory automation and warehouse automation.

Our workstations are fully ergonomic, and our platforms are robust, adaptable, and secure. We can integrate your whole process line and increase your efficiency according to your needs.

All components, from electric drives to linear motion systems, conveyor systems and RFID systems are seamlessly coordinated to ensure accurate positioning, with high dynamics.

We can meet your needs for accurate positioning with minimal cycle times, quick changeover for small batches, or flexible adjustment to production changes.

Machine solutions

We can build an almost endless list of machines to automate labour-intensive, repeatable tasks in small plants as well as factory automation and warehouse automation applications.

From CNC machines to pneumatic presses to packaging machines, Tectra Automation draws on our entire technology range to build bespoke factory automation systems that meets your exact performance requirements, both now and in the future.

We are a competent and experienced partner in developing automated and semi-automated machines and machine tool processes. We combine your need for short cycle times with the highest precision, maximum freedom in engineering and low energy consumption in a completely customised solution.

Vacuum handling

Schmalz advanced vacuum gripping systems are perfect for optimising automated handling across various industries and warehouse operations.

With precision-engineered components and state-of-the-art systems, achieve swift and non-marking gripping of diverse workpieces -be they bags, boxes, pallets, glass, metal, wood, or composite sheets - weighing up to 2 000 kg.

Industrial robots and automated setups benefit from Schmalz gripping systems, empowering a wide array of palletising and logistics tasks. Witness remarkable productivity boosts during automated processes using our range, spanning layer and vacuum area gripping systems to easy-to-integrate vacuum suction spiders, catering to all aspects of automation.

Warehousing and storage

Our intelligent sensors, dependable actuators, accurate positioning devices, and modern tracking methods offer you flexible factory automation and warehouse automation solutions.

Manual production systems with application-optimised material supply scenarios and customisable racking systems make sure that material doesn’t have to travel far and is always at hand when needed.

Automated material movement within factory automation and warehouse automation applications allows you to lower inventory levels and costs. In all applications, the goal is to attain maximum transparency for your processes.

Lean engineering for faster results

Factory automation and warehouse automation solutions from Bosch Rexroth Africa are designed to work seamlessly together with standardised interfaces.

This reduces project engineering, installation, and start-up requirements by up to 80 %.

• User-friendly design and project planning tools help you to configure the linear motion technology and to plan the complete structural framing and conveyor system.
• Electric and pneumatic linear modules have the same dimensions and are therefore interchangeable. You can thus easily adapt the drive technology to new tasks without having to change the overall system design.
• All processes – from start-up, parameter-input, and programming, all the way through to diagnosis – can be performed using the comprehensive and ergonomically designed software environment. The integrated framework offers maximum transparency for all processes and is very easy to use.
• The start-up procedure for servo axes, comprising Rexroth servo drives and linear modules, can be accomplished up to 90% faster by using an intuitive software assistant. It only takes a few minutes to enter the specific data required to make a complete electrical axis ready for operation.

Open standards, for use worldwide

The Open Core platform from Bosch Rexroth is the most open ecosystem for factory automation and warehouse automation solutions that are future-proof and can be used worldwide. It uses the sercos automation bus that is standardised internationally, and has a unique flexibility that protects your investment.

It supports multiple Ethernet interfaces that are standardised and can communicate in real-time with various protocols, such as sercos, PROFINET IO, EtherNet/IP and EtherCat. The interface can be easily configured with the software provided. It also supports conventional interfaces like PROFIBUS.

The PLC control units are programmed according to the international standard IEC 61131-3. It has many function blocks that are predefined and configurable, which reduces the need for programming.

Users can copy and paste whole programs or parts thereof easily, and create their own function libraries that make programming new tasks easier and faster.

The identification systems from Bosch Rexroth use RFID technology and can store data centrally or decentrally. They can be connected easily to the PLC and motion logic system through standardised interfaces and frequencies for factory automation and warehouse automation purposes.