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Our understanding of the term:
Systems engineering is more than the integration of marking machines into systems. Using existing technologies, systems engineering does something entirely new, offering more than the sum of the component parts.
Examples:
Roller stamping of cylinder bottles: Cams guide the clamping heads into the drums of a magazine. Other cams lift and lower the linear stamping mechanism in order to compensate for the length of the curve for roller stamping.
Result: The system continuously marks a aluminium gas bottle with a three line text long text lines every three seconds.
Roller stamping of steel tubes: Roller stamping machines for this interlinked process permit the marking of steel tubes of up to 160 mm in diameter and 16 m in length at a speed of up to 6 m/s in the longitudinal direction of the tube. These rapid workpiece movements call for a tool which not only rotates but is also synchronously driven. Since the speed of the tubes on the conveyor system can fluctuate, due to the process itself, the rotation of the print wheel must be synchronized precisely to every tube. Once the speed of the work piece has been adjusted by a friction wheel, the stamping tool achieves the correct rotary speed in not more than 160 milliseconds. The tool starts from a zero position, so that stamping can begin at the correct distance from the end of the tube and in the right place within a narrow tolerance zone. To ensure that a high quality stamping image is obtained, the stamping roller can be adjusted to an accuracy of 0.1 mm or less from the control panel of the stored program controller (SPC).
Networked data processing: If the production control system generates the marking data in its own database and the latter is also the database for the remote stamping system at the same time, the control console becomes the machine control panel.
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