Nol-Tec  Southeast  Now  Offers  a  Siemens  Replacement  for  Legacy  Positioning  Products

November 3, 2010

Nol-Tec Southeast has completed successful installation and field testing of its Siemens-based solution for the legacy positioning product Trimble ICS-5000 at two metals industries applications in the Midwest.

Nol-Tec's SIBICS, a Siemens-based, advanced position control for cranes, hoists, AS/RS and automated material handling, is a transparent replacement for legacy positioning products and easily integrates into any retrofit, rebuild or new installation. SIBICS has the same functionality of Nol-Tec's ABICS - the Allen-Bradley Logix-based positioning system introduced in 2008.

• Provides complete position control functionality to all axes on virtaully any crane or industrial vehicle.
• Dramatic performance and serviceability improvement.
• Reduction in position error rates.
• Increased reliability and greater accuracy.
• Anti-skew control with collision avoidance.
• Simple retrofit- typically in as little as a few hours.
• Supports all ICS-5000/TCS-4000 configurations.

"Upgrading from the legacy Trimble ICS-5000 to Nol-Tec's SIBICS positioning solution has many benefits to our customers including reliability, accuracy and serviceability. The integration is easy and the results are dramatic," says Jody Pardue, Crane and Hoist Business Development Manager and Engineer.

For more information, please contact us at cranes@noltecse.com or 704-529-0123.

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Accurate, high-speed positioning for cranes and hoists with automatic anti-skew control.

A printing industry customer was using (6) of the aging TCS-4000 units for positioning their automatic storage and retrieval cranes. There were a total of (2) units on each of (3) cranes. Downtime was extremely critical for this customer, as they were in the middle of their busy season. Unfortunately for them, this was exactly when their last spare units began to fail.

ABICS is the ONLY Allen-Bradley based, drop-in, plug-and-play replacement for the aging Geotronics TCS-4000 and the Trimble ICS-5000 on the market. When these products fail, Nol-Tec Southeast has the solution. In RS232 applications, it transparently replaces your existing positioning system. DeviceNet, Profibus, Ethernet and other networks are also available.

Nol-Tec Southeast was able to replace the legacy products with extremely limited downtime. The only work required was to mount the new lasers and controllers, and reconnect the associated wiring. Once installed, a simple tuning was all that was needed to get them running. This was all completed in a matter of hours.

These cranes are highly critical to the customer's operation since they store and retrieve 100% of the in-process inventory. The range of the laser in this application exceeds 400', with less than 2" physical position tolerance. ABICS is accurate to 6mm, or less than 1/4". The upgrade was a complete success and the customer experienced minimal down-time.

Testimonial:
"I received a call... asking if Nol-Tec could come in and install an update... It is a breath of fresh air to have a vendor fulfill a promise without constant harassment to follow thru with commitments. I have in good faith been waiting quietly for an update and out of nowhere here it is. Your group is one of a few that does this, for most of the time I have to jump up and down over and over to get vendors to follow thru with commitments."