Posted to News on 20th Aug 2025, 09:00
Bringing unprecedented flexibility to manufacturing lines
B&R Industrial Automation managing director, Andy Norcliffe, discusses the company's ACOPOS 6D transport system which uses magnetically levitating shuttles to carry products and materials to processing stations, eliminating mechanical wear, and speeding up transit times.
(See B&R Industrial Automation at MachineBuilding.Live, 15 October 2025, on stand 109)
ACOPOS 6D uses a variety of magnetic shuttles to carry payloads of 0.6 to 14 kilograms, reaching speeds of up to 2 m/s. They can move freely in two-dimensional space, rotate and tilt along three axes and offer precise control over the height of levitation.
Offering six degrees of motion control freedom, the shuttles can be precisely positioned to within +/-5 um, making ACOPOS 6D perfectly suited for applications with strict positioning requirements.
See more from B&R Industrial Automation at MachineBuilding.Live on 15 October at the NAEC, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire.
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