Bonfiglioli Offers Industrial Automation Ecosystem at SPS Nuremberg

At SPS Nuremberg, Bonfiglioli is showcasing its comprehensive ecosystem of mechatronics, combining gearmotors, inverters and sensors with automation software tools. A special focus is given to the newly expanded Axia drive family, while five mechatronic packages dedicated to applications for rolling conveyor, palletizer, flowpack, compact warehouse elevator and material handling complete the range displayed at the exhibition. Bonfiglioli expands its successful Axia family of drives with the introduction of the new AxiaAgile series. Together with the well-established AxiaVert series, AxiaAgile completes the Axia portfolio, offering an ideal solution for a wide range of automation and motion control applications. While AxiaVert addresses high-performance and complex applications thanks to its modular architecture, extensive functional safety options and advanced motion control features, AxiaAgile provides a compact, cost-effective solution for general-purpose applications. Based on a concept of variants, AxiaAgile is designed to meet different application needs and offers dedicated configurations that simplify product selection and reduce engineering time. The four variants Basic, Standard, Enhanced and Advanced are developed for sensorless or simple closed loop applications and support different fieldbus systems. AxiaAgile offers integrated Safe Torque Off (STO) functionality, with highest performance level and reliability. Sharing the same industrial design, commissioning and diagnostic tools, and user-friendly software environment (Axia Manager and Axia Manager Mobile), both AxiaAgile and AxiaVert ensure an intuitive user experience and seamless integration. The use of common accessories and software simplifies setup, parameterization and maintenance, while preserving the customer’s application know-how.  AxiaVert meets the highest functional safety standards and provides STO, SS1 and SBC, or motion safety functions SLS, SLP and SOS. Furthermore, AxiaVert excels in EtherCAT FSoE communication integration, significantly reducing engineering and cabling costs by transmitting all safety communications between the inverter and PLC via the fieldbus. With AxiaVert covering power ratings up to 15 kW and AxiaAgile up to 11 kW, the expanded Axia family delivers maximum flexibility, scalability and performance to meet the specific needs of diverse industries – from material handling and intralogistics to packaging, textiles and automated storage systems. Bonfiglioli tackles major challenges in industrial machinery, such as downtime and high maintenance costs, by providing IIoT solutions that include Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance. The IoT platform utilizes Bonfiglioli sensors to monitor gearboxes and motors, collecting vital performance and energy data. These sensors combine accelerometer, magnetometer and temperature functions which are externally transmitted through a decentralized gateway. Smart sensors capture real-time data on parameters such as vibration and temperature, identifying issues before they escalate and allowing maintenance to be scheduled only when needed. An IoT Bench offers live demonstrations of sensor activity at the booth.  At SPS Bonfiglioli introduces its Automation Manager, a software suite integrating all digital tools designed to provide complete synergy across Bonfiglioli product portfolio, throughout every stage of the machine lifecycle – from selection to diagnostics. The Automation Manager is composed of Electronic Management tools, facilitating the commissioning, monitoring and diagnostic of our solutions, and Software Tools, helping customers selecting, sizing and optimizing products. The former includes AxiaManager, dedicated to the configuration, management, and commissioning of the Axia Family inverters, enabling users to easily parameterize drives, monitor performance, and run diagnostics during startup or maintenance. The IoT Manager, focused on managing the company’s IoT architecture, allowing users to configure connected devices, deploy firmware, monitor field data, and set system parameters. While the latter includes Smart Sizer, that assists customers in selecting the right components for specific applications by enabling users to input load, speed, and duty cycle parameters; the Efficiency Tool, allowing for the comparison of energy performance across different combinations of motors and drives, quantifying consumption, losses and efficiency; finally, Bonfiglioli's e-shop designed to streamline the customer journey, enabling product selection and online ordering for the entire range of products, including gearmotors, gearboxes, and inverters. Thanks to the Bonfiglioli Automation Manager, all Bonfiglioli products and software, communicate within the same ecosystem guaranteeing a simple and optimized customer experience from sizing to monitoring. Autonomous Mobile Robots are essential to simplify intralogistics process flows. For this sector, Bonfiglioli presents the BlueRoll Platform featuring a compact low voltage wheel-mounted planetary gearmotor of the BMS Series, which is compatible with electronic drives and can include 24 or 48-volt batteries. In Nuremberg, visitors can see the AMR, an autonomous truck robot designed to tow carts and workbenches weighing up to 250 kg. What sets it apart is its innovative lateral coupling mechanism, which delivers unique technical and mechanical benefits. This pioneering system ensures secure traction and optimal wheel grip, even on uneven surfaces. Its motorized wheels and electric drive, fully custom-engineered by Bonfiglioli, provide maximum efficiency, flexibility and performance. Bonfiglioli offers complete mechatronic packages featuring motor, gearmotor and inverter, specifically developed for parcel and post applications. For flow pack packaging processes, Bonfiglioli proposes a solution incorporating a BMD synchronous servomotor, a helical bevel gearbox of the A Series and the AxiaVert inverter. Same motor and inverter, but different gearbox are applied to palletizers – here the precision planetary gearbox belongs to the TQ Series, which is appreciated for its high torque density, high overload capacity, exceptional precision and low vibration. For compact warehouse elevators the solution integrates, besides BMD and AxiaVert, a helical parallel-shaft gearbox of the F Series, guaranteeing high efficiency and reliability and low-noise operation. For intralogistics processes, more specifically rolling conveyor, the solution presented at SPS combines the EVOX CP coaxial gearbox, with a modular, reliable and energy efficient IE3 asynchronous MXN electric motor and the AxiaVert Premium drive. Finally, for smart conveyors, a helical bevel gearbox of the A Series is showcased coupled with a synchronous reluctance BSR motor and a sensorized decentralized DGM inverter.