PPMA SHOW PREVIEW SUPPLEMENT EASIER INTEGRATION FOR PACKAGING MACHINERY AUTOMATION
With the aid of a ProSeal GT0 automatic in-line tray sealing system on its stand at the PPMA Show, (stand C60) Mitsubishi Electric will demonstrate how high- speed heat sealing technology and robots are becoming easier to deploy. The advanced functionality, simple integration and ease of programming of its automation technologies are being shown to deliver increased productivity and flexibility to end-users. The tray sealing machine was designed to increase
line speeds, cut labour costs and produce over 45 packs/min. The machine meets requirements for rapid tool changes, simple operation and ease of integration with other production line equipment. The high accuracy tool alignment system ensures consistently accurate sealing and film cutting, while a servo-driven ‘setting-free’ automatic tray collation in-feed delivers increased performance. A pendant mounted colour touch screen HMI provides control for full double-sided operation, with menu-driven control offering step-by- step prompts, error and status displays and a useful batch counter function, as well as providing recipe-driven auto machine set-up for tool change. Further, highlighting how the integration of robotics onto the production line can
increase line efficiency and productivity, the live ProSeal demonstration on the Mitsubishi Electric stand includes a MELFA articulated arm robot picking and placing trays to and from the GT0 tray sealer.
Mitsubishi Electric A CLEARER VIEW
With heightened safety standards for manufacturers and the need for effective batch control, ClearView Imaging will be launching the CheckMate Print Head on stand G44, a more accurate and affordable on-line batch verification print and vision solution. This solution is said to revolutionise the verification of continuous ink-jet-product and batch information on a variety of packaging formats, designs, colours and substrates. The print head unit is based on
industrial, IP67 smart camera technology and algorithms built around dot matrix printing, and can verify legibility rather than simple comparison of continuous ink-jet (CIJ) codes, without the use of pre-processing.
ClearView Imaging
www.clearviewimaging.co.uk
gb3A.mitsubishielectric.com/fa SLIMMED DOWN CASE ERECTOR
Endoline Machinery will launch a new slimline Case Erector on stand H85 – which the company says is almost half the width of current case erecting systems and the narrowest on the market. Initially designed to work with grading, packing and processing
machines within the egg industry, the 251 Case Erector is suitable for any food manufacturer where space is at a premium. With an approximate 40% width reduction on Endoline’s standard case erectors, the 251 Case Erector measures just 1m wide by 2m long. With the ability to handle any of the required case size ranges, at a speed of up to 10 cases/min, the machine has been fitted with Endoline’s dual opposing vacuum system to ensure heavy cases are opened positively from both sides, eliminating tearing or issues associated with glue migration on new cases. The 251 case erector suits
customers with space constraints – those who want to automate, but simply don’t have the space.
Endoline Machinery PILOT PLANT MIXING FOR EASY SCALE-UP
At the PPMA show, on stand G30, high shear mixer manufacturer Silverson will be launching the Verso FMX5, its first benchtop powder/liquid mixer. Dispersing powders into liquids can pose just as big a challenge in the
laboratory as it can on the production floor, but the new pilot scale Flashmix can easily incorporate a range of powders with the same performance, mixing characteristics and repeatability that the larger models provide. This also offers an easy and accurate means of scaling up. The company will also show working examples of its production
scale batch, ultramix and in-line high shear mixers and a range of laboratory equipment.
Silverson Machines
www.silverson.co.uk FAST AND FLEXIBLE DELTA PICK AND PLACE ROBOT
With a pick rate of 300/min, Omron will debut what it claims to be the world’s fastest and most flexible Delta pick and place robot at PPMA 2017. Said to be the only Delta on the market with four arms, the Omron Quattro also offers a larger working envelope and a degree of manipulation not achievable elsewhere. Furthermore, Omron says the Quattro is also the only Delta robot which is USDA certified and constructed with materials that are safe for primary food handling. The Quattro Delta robot
incorporates a patented, four arm
speed, manipulation, reach and a 15kg payload will ensure the Omron Quattro Delta is suitable for any general automation application. Complementing the Quattro
rotational platform, which offers advantages over traditional three arm Delta robots. The fourth arm allows the robot to reach up to 30% further than traditional designs, and also allows the robot to tilt, meaning the load can be placed at a different angle than it is picked. The combination of
Delta, will be a preview of Omron’s futuristic OKAO software. The demonstration will show powerful gesture control over the production process, as well as how facial recognition can be used to unlock different levels of access to control functions and information. Visit stand B34.
Omron Electronics
www.industrial.omron.co.uk
/ PROCESS&CONTROL
www.endoline-automation.com ‘LIFT THE FLAP’ CODING
Responding to the coding and handling challenges of the latest ‘lift-the-flap’ style luxury pack sleeve, Rotech will launch its new off-line RF Auto sleeve and carton friction feeder at PPMA 2017 (stand A37). This offline sleeve coding solution for overprinting essential information, such as batch numbers and use-by dates, accurately handles the latest cardboard watch sleeves which vary in thickness due to the addition of an informational flap incorporated into the sleeve. Without any human intervention, the system’s auto-gate feature automatically adjusts to accommodate the varying thickness of each flat pack to boost coding productivity and eliminate set-up time and sleeve waste, which could amount to £20k per annum alone. The RF Auto’s new auto-gate
function targets food manufacturers who find that increasingly varied packaging styles can present a challenge for conventional coding systems, and eliminates the need to make manual adjustments. The RF Auto stack-to-stack feeder works using a non-contact thermal inkjet coder offering a complete offline overprinting solution. The solution minimises set-up downtime in coding operations and eliminates waste packaging. Steve Ryan, sales director Rotech, said: “It’s quite possible that manufacturers having to manually set- up and test a sleeve feeder could see waste amounting to £395 per week alone - the RF Auto is designed to eliminate this waste.”
Rotech
www.rotechmachines.com
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