Reference : Machine control solutions

The Customer Challenge

To survive in today’s highly competitive market, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must boost product performance, reduce time-to-market and optimize maintenance - whilst cutting costs. Based near Le Mans, France, mid-sized OEM Recmi Industrie is constantly working to deliver postpress equipment that will help customers in the printing and graphics industry overcome these challenges. “Our machines play a specific role: They collect the copy stream coming off the web press folder and prepare the documents to be packed and shipped to customers”, explained Recmi Industrie’s Managing Director Gilles Bodereau.

The Solution and key Success Factors

Recmi Industrie is currently working on-site at Roto France Impression in Lognes, France, to complete the design of a compensating stacker with a top rotary tray. This patented new technology, which will round off Recmi’s product line-up, leverages Schneider Electric’s MachineStruxure™ architecture, a unique system designed to help OEMs streamline their product design process for maximum performance.

The main benefit of MachineStruxure™ is that it offers a single software suite for the entire machine design process; engineers can use it to program all components of the automation architecture, from variable speed drives, dialogue terminals and CNC machines through to PLCs. MachineStruxure™ is exactly the kind of system we had been trying to put together ourselves, but without much success. It’s the ideal tool for OEMs like us”, said Mr. Bodereau.

MachineStruxure’s comprehensive, one-of-a-kind system is flexible and easy to upgrade, guaranteeing rapid development, reliable operation and productivity gains throughout a machine’s life cycle - even maintenance. The MachineStruxure™ software environment is also a top choice for packaging, material handling and hoisting - or any other application that requires speed and precision.