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SPS 2023 HALLE 7 STAND 450 Mehr über ctrlX FLOW erfahren ctrlxautomation de ctrlx-fl ow A 360° SOLUTION FOR STRAIGHTFORWARD DECISIONS Intralogistische Prozesse automatisieren und optimieren – das ist ein wesentlicher Erfolgsfaktor in der Fabrik der Zukunft Die Produktfamilie ctrlX FLOW bietet mit dem Planarsystem für berührungslose Hochleistungsbeförderung sowie dem linearen Motion-System für Highspeed-Transport und -Positionierung einfach zu integrierende Lösungen für hocheffi ziente Materialund Warenfl üsse 08 Bosch TZSPS Tag 3 FLOW neu pdf S 1 Format 255 00 x 171 00 mm 08 Nov 2023 14 33 09 8 Messe Aktuell DONNeRstAG 16 NOveMbeR Preventing Dead Ends in Safety Development The ‚NTSafeFlex‘ platform from NewTec is designed to significantly reduce the time and effort required to develop new industrial applications with high safety requirements – and more recently to reduce dependence on specific manufacturers and microcontrollers Andreas Knoll Markt Technik The innovation cycles of electronic components are becoming shorter In plain language this means that semiconductor products are becoming obsolete more quickly and are being discontinued more frequently This is a problem for manufacturers whose products are based on these components And that‘s not the only cause for concern crises such as the one in Ukraine or Taiwan or the Covid-19 pandemic have repeatedly led to global supply bottlenecks for ICs However if a safetyrelevant component of a product is no longer available over a longer period of time there is hardly any way around a comprehensive adaptation or even a new development including new approval Then Manufacturers are faced with followup costs „The approval costs alone for the assessment of functional safety amount to between 30 000 and 50 000 Euros “ says Stephan Strohmeier from NewTec „Reconfiguring inputs and outputs and adapting various functionalities can quickly add another 50 000 Euros “ With its safety engineering platform NTSafeFlex NewTec is now breaking new ground in order to reduce dependency on specific manufacturers and specific microcontrollers NewTec‘s aim with the ‚NTSafeFlex ‘platform was to provide manufacturers with a toolbox that would enable them to significantly reduce the time and effort required to develop new industrial applications with high safety requirements With the twochannel reference design ‚NTSafeFlex Board‘ and the associated precertified safety library ‚NTSafetyLib‘ developments up to SIL 3 become much easier – for example the development of functional prototypes for monitoring fast machine movements for the safe control of actuators or for reading in protective devices „The supply bottlenecks for ICs have made it painfully clear to us all that development Stephan Strohmeier is Head of Consulting and Head of Safety Security Solutions at NewTec Im ag e Ne wT ec costs are no longer a oneoff investment “ says Strohmeier „At the same time we will probably have to reckon with bottlenecks again and again in the future - despite the new semiconductor production facilities that are currently being set up in Germany Europe and the USA “ For NewTec the consequence was further flexibilization The reference design of the ‚NTSafeFlex board‘ whose twochannel architecture was originally based on two STM32G070 microcontrollers is now being successively offered with controllers from other manufacturers The Safety Library will also be available for the corresponding controllers Thanks to its modular design it can be used independently of the ‚NTSafe-Flex Board‘ At SPS NewTec is presenting a variant of the ‚NTSafeflex Board‘ and the Safety Library for SAM-D21 microcontrollers from Microchip for the first time If one of the microcontrollers used is discontinued the adaptations to an alternative controller are manageable because the safety functions based on the hardware abstractions of the Safety Library can still be used „The effort and costs are around ten times lower than for a comparable new development “ says Strohmeier and announces that the ‚NTSafeFlex‘ platform will be expanded to include the microcontrollers of other manufacturers „This will significantly expand the supplier market for manufacturers and make the life cycle of their products less dependent on supply bottlenecks or discontinuations “ Hall 5 Booth 159