KBA Planeta: VARIOCON presses on
KBA Planeta AG is an enterprise belonging to the Koenig & Bauer group. The development, production, distribution and service for the whole sheet offset range of the company group in small, medium or large format is in the hands of KBA Planeta. The entire operation of the machine is designed in order to fulfil today's requirements of modern printing technology, especially with regard to reducing setting-up time and increasing efficiency.

It is operated mainly via the new developed control desk. From here, the individual printing machines, as well as the numerous special devices are controlled.

In order to allow modularity of the assemblies, the various control signals must be transmitted via pluggable connection systems. To ensure safe transmission of the control signals in the heavy machines, VARIOCON from the EMC series is used.


The T-coupler for modular automation concepts:
COMBICON, printed circuit board and VARIOCON-EMC


The new automation concept with distributed system architecture has been made possible by project planning in cooperation with PHOENIX CONTACT.

With VARIOCON, the proven Planeta principle of aggregate design has been realized in the Rapida series. The direct p.c.b. connection is located on the board and connected via COMBICON termination blocks. Using VARICON as a T-coupler allows trouble-free operation as well as efficient retrofitting. The printing plate can, for example, be exchanged automatically via command from the control desk and the state of the machine can be displayed at any time at the control desk.

Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Schael


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