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News Release from: Yaskawa Engineering Europe | Subject: Control programming
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 29 November 2005
Legacy software upgraded with ease
Yaskawa Engineering Europe came to the aid of Dunlop Aircraft Tyres when the Birmingham-based aircraft equipment company needed to modify the software in some of its production machinery.
Yaskawa Engineering Europe (EEU) recently came to the aid of Dunlop Aircraft Tyres when the Birmingham-based aircraft equipment company recognised the need to modify the software in some of its production machinery To complicate matters, the original programming company no longer existed, so Yaskawa had its work cut out
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 6 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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To further complicate the situation a description of the program was also not available.
As the panels controlling the equipment housed Yaskawa servo drives and controllers, Dunlop decided that Yaskawa would be the obvious first port of call for finding a solution.
Thanks to its in-depth knowledge of the complete Yaskawa range, EEU was able to immediately commence work on the reprogramming - even without the software descriptions.
The modifications involved several changes to the existing software that controlled the positioning, sequencing and measurement of the components laid down in the aircraft tyre manufacturing process.
There were also benefits for the users, as the software would be tailored to suit the operator's needs and an update would make it generally easier to use compared with the previous system.
EEU completed the entire job in three weeks - from design to implementation - effectively creating a new control solution from the existing equipment.
The Yaskawa engineers needed just over a week to recognise and understand the original software program, even without any prior knowledge or background information.
Indeed, it was EEU's expertise and experience of the controllers that made all the difference.
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