| worldwide | germany PC Control 03 | 2017 eXtended Transport System helps to implement innovative design of specialty pharmaceutical machine with minimized hardware needs Flexibility boost for a pill bottle cap assembly line| PC Control 03 | 2017 worldwide | germany Fully automating production processes that were once manual or semiautomatic presents special challenges when the cycle times involved are extremely short. With workpiece carrier systems operating on a fixed cycle time, accommodating the differences between individual processing stations’ motion profiles involves set- ting up multiple stations of a given type to operate in parallel. This prompted Goldfuß Engineering GmbH in Balingen, Germany, to deploy its first Beckhoff eXtended Transport System (XTS) on a

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