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Movement from Body Language to High-Speed Handling Highly Flexible, Very Compact trends in automation The Festo customer magazine 2.2014 Inspiration Sending signals Interview with Samy Molcho, mime and body language expert Impulse The hub High-speed logistics at the Customer Service Centre in St. Ingbert-Rohrbach Synergies Hot topic Thermoforming of car floor coverings In focus Movement From body language to high-speed handling Highly flexible, very compact You want simple and precise positioning. You are looking for rapid and free motion in 2D. We provide you with a ready-to-install solution. More compact? No way! The planar surface gantry EXCM with its kinematic system and integrated drives ensures maximum working space where installation space is minimal. Ethernet and CANopen make it highly connective. The standardised system with double controller is ideal for desktop applications. www.festo.com Always on the move Dear reader, At Festo, motion is our business. We feel at home wherever some- thing moves in an industrial automation process, be it fast or slow, simple or complex, pneumatic or electric. Festo has the right so- lution for any movement task in factory automation and process automation. New developments, such as our mini H-gantry EXCM, allow a wide spectrum of batch sizes to be handled at extremely low cost. You can read more about the new mini H-gantry EXCM from Festo on page 24. The world of business is also constantly on the move. Modern communication solutions cover thousands of kilometres in a fraction of a second. With markets constantly changing there is no time for industry to procrastinate. Processes need to be more flexible. Even the smallest batch sizes have to be achieved with the highest possible degree of automation at the lowest cost, so what was once considered a contradiction is now mandatory. Speed becomes the decisive competitive factor and I am not only talking about the speed of machines and processes. The speed of internal business processes becomes vital for maintaining a com- Dr. Ansgar Kriwet, petitive edge. Who can present a quotation faster? Who can offer Member of the Management Board, Sales the shortest delivery time? When can we promise the start-up of a new machine? These factors decide whether orders are won or lost. At Festo we are focusing all our efforts to support you in speeding up your processes in design, purchasing and production with tools and services that help you win the “speed competition”. Fast delivery is key in our Customer Service Center, supplying European customers from Rohrbach. On page 20 you can see how we are using automation to speed up your delivery. This issue of trends in automation is dedicated to movement. Festo is expanding its development horizon with its bionic pro- jects in which future oriented technologies can gain a foothold. The most recent example is our eMotionSpheres. This bionic in- stallation with its flying spheres demonstrates how multiple ob- jects can move through the air energy-efficiently without colliding, thanks to multiple network connections, an indoor GPS system and innovative drive concepts. All of these developments will find applications in future Festo products for the automation world. Motion is our business and you will find a world of application examples where we are supporting our customers from different industrial areas with their motion tasks. What can we do for you? Enjoy reading! Ansgar Kriwet In focus Movement “The Wave” sandstone rock formation is a snapshot of nature in motion – formed over thousands of years by wind and weather. In the world of automation, motion takes place considerably more quickly. Modern, high-speed processes demand ever more flexibility and higher quality. In this : © Ansgar Hillebrand issue of trends in automation you’ll find out how this balancing act is achieved. Photo trends in automation 2.2014 Editorial 3 Panorama 6 Festo worldwide 43 About this magazine 45 Soft stop 46 Bionic adaptation: 18 the unique jumping behaviour of the BionicKangaroo. Compass “You can’t separate movement Harmony in the air 8 from the inner attitude.” With the eMotionSpheres, Festo demon- strates how several flying objects can be coordinated to move in a defined air space. They feature an innovative drive Inspiration concept. 14 Movement is life Developmental leap Interview with Samy Molcho. The renowned With the BionicKangaroo, Festo has tech- mime and body language expert talks nologically reproduced the unique way of about movement as a means of nonverbal moving of a kangaroo. The innovative kine- communication and about signals, feelings matics supports extremely energy-efficient and expectations. 8 jumping. 18 2.2014 trends in automation Contents 4 – 5 Customer Service Centre: Around 20 400 employees ensure that goods are dispatched quickly. Impulse Ultimate precision: the delta robot 30 EXPT in a multifunctional palletiser Always on the move for the watch industry. Logistical tour de force: the Customer Service Centre in St. Ingbert-Rohrbach handles up to 40,000 order items every day. A high degree of automation helps Synergies to ensure efficient processing. 20 Small in size, great in diversity Hot from the mould Minimalism Switzerland: the country famous all over Fast and gentle: proportional technology The mini H-gantry EXCM is a flexible and the world for the Matterhorn, cheese, is used in a production system for the economical automation solution for a very chocolate and watches is also making its thermo forming of car floor coverings. 37 wide range of handling tasks, including the mark as numerous high-tech companies test system at Visatronic and PKC. 24 play an increasingly prominent role in the Hot recycling coolly calculated global market. 26 Highly productive: with a complete solu- tion spanning several levels of the auto- As precise as a Swiss watch mation pyramid, Festo automated a recyc- The delta robot EXPT demonstrates its ling plant for waste from blast furnaces in speed and dexterity in an intelligent sys- Mexico. 40 tem for the watch industry. 30 To the point Festo worked with IPTE to develop an innovative machine concept for the selective soldering of sensors directly in the housing. 34 Photo: © ESA Moved by the wind To see movement in the air you need two things: water vapour and condensation nuclei, tiny micropar- ticles on which water droplets form. Together they form clouds in an unstable stratified atmosphere (air that becomes colder with increasing altitude). In meteorology, there are 10 different cloud types according to the official classification of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Their various forms shed light on wind direction, wind speed and the weather over the coming hours and days. The satellite image here shows a band of cloud recorded over the North Sea between Denmark (bottom right) and Norway, with its many fjords. The cloud formation indicates high wind speeds at an altitude of several kilometres. Generally speak- ing, wind speed and therefore also the amount of cloud increases with altitude. The strong winds of the jet streams reach peak speeds of up to 540 km/h at altitudes of between 8,000 and 18,000 metres. 2.2014 trends in automation Panorama 6 – 7 Interview Movement is life Samy Molcho is one of the most renowned mimes of the 20th century. As a celebrated artist, he has performed on stages across the world. These days, however, he spends his time sharing his in-depth knowledge of the scope of expression of the human body with a broad public. trends in automation met with Samy Molcho in Vienna and gained a fascinating insight into the world of body language. trends in automation: Prof. Molcho, you have studied theatre, dance and the art of mime. Your first performance in Europe was About the person in 1961 and since then you have performed in over 50 countries on four continents. That alone sounds quite literally like a life lived Professor Samy Molcho in movement. What does movement mean to you? Samy Molcho was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He graduated Samy Molcho : For me, movement is life. That which doesn’t from drama school and studied classic, modern and Oriental move, doesn’t live. That which doesn’t move, doesn’t react. That dance as well as the technique of mime in Israel. In 1957, he which doesn’t react is not connected to the outside world; there gave his first solo mime performance. His first performance is no interaction. There is no life without movement. For me per- in Europe was in 1961. From then on, he trod the boards of sonally, the most important movement is inner movement. We are some of the most famous theatres in the world until his fare- primarily moved by feelings. This is captured really well in the well tour of 1987. In 1977, he was made a college professor word “emotion”. Here the movement or motion is already con- and in 2001 a university professor at the University of Music tained in the word. Movement or restraint is triggered by feelings; and Performing Arts at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, this is also necessary for survival. Let’s just take hunger, thirst and Austria (given emeritus status in 2004). fear for example. This information about our feelings moves us towards a source of nourishment or away from a place of danger. Samy Molcho was already considered an international expert in the field of body language as early as the 1980s. In addition For decades, you performed as a mime on stages to his work as a personal coach, he continues to host success- all around the world. What was so special to you about ful seminars and give talks across the world. He is the best- expression through movement? selling author of several books that have been translated into many different languages.
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