It’s increasingly important to minimize the time between designing a plant and starting production. And it’s especially important to coherently define the transport tasks, or routing processes.

SIMATIC Component-based Automation (SIMATIC CbA) for routing is an intelligent tool for designing and implementing all transport tasks. It allows you to define the various existing conveyor belts as software modules so that you can then use them repeatedly in your system. In this way, a conveyor unit, also called a mechatronic unit, is tested directly and in isolation by the mechanical engineer with your software and the digital MC drives and then sent on its way to the plant.  SIMATIC iMAP graphically displays the actual configuration of your plant, allowing you to determine the sequence and relationships of the conveyor belts before the plant starts operating.

SIMATIC CbA for routing reduces time spent on comprehensive test configurations with a mechanical engineer. And you can graphically add later changes such as new transport routes to the configuration. As a result, you significantly reduce runtimes from planning to commissioning of your plant, while boosting the quality of your automation.