Usually removal robots for the plastics industry are autonomous and in themselves closed system, which integrate all internal components. Common removal robots simply provide digital in-and outputs for external communications.Today’s common office automation visulizes the advantages of connectivity and free data exchange.This desire also came up for robot controls.

The open Wittmann architecture is enabling process control via the machine control, the robot control, or any computer terminal.

With the R8 control, an IPC based robot control was presented which offers besides the specified EUROMAP 67 interface to molding machines, additional hardware based in-/outputs for the connection of automation systems, and additionally CanOpen real time interfaces, an Etherent interface and USB port.