Inspection (machine vision, X-ray) |
In this video, watch how Sylvania uses National Instruments' vision, motion, Intelligent DAQ, and LabVIEW systems to develop a flexible machine control system.
No more developing the HMI in one software application, and then having to develop and test the logic control in another. GP-Pro EX from Pro-Face integrates the programming of the operator interface with the needed ladder logic control features.
It takes just a blink of an eye for a packaging line to jam. But in that split second, a company can lose valuable time. And, as the old saying goes: Time is money. This White Paper shows how the 20/20 Hindsight from Monitoring Technologies can help.
Prepress firm Autumn Graphics Ltd. achieves repeatable, precise inspection of finished production files for packaging through an automated, scanner-based proofreading system.
Stull Technologies borrows a few ideas from the high-speed CD jewel case manufacturing scene when it brings sophisticated robotics to its packaging operations.
Seasoning blends and dry mix specialist installs easy-to-clean flexible screw conveyors for more efficient product delivery to filling lines.
It was only a couple of months ago that an obscure provision about
reporting dangerous food products, embedded in a big law that mostly
dealt with toughening drug regulation, was the biggest change in food
safety law in quite some time (see www.packworld.com/view-24168).
Brought in-house to save the costs of copacking, a new, fully automated packaging line for Ace Paint fills paint-sample containers at 50/min with minimal operator intervention.
In the wake of Katrina, shrimp processor/packer rebounds, rebuilds, and re-invigorates efficiencies by installing an automated scale/bagging system.
Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line at contract packager Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales.
Robotic case packing and palletizating of Nexium blister- and wallet-packs at AstraZeneca’s Södertälje, Sweden, facility improve productivity and reduce manufacturing costs.
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Having X-ray, metal detection, and checkweighing capabilities for your
packaged goods are as close as a phone call away and may cost less than
you think.

Serpa’s all-servo P200 Balcony Casepaker now uses PacDrive Intelligent
Servo Modules to maximum advantage for pharmaceutical applications.

EZx from Thermo Fisher provides the optimum solution for locating foreign objects in package food production.
From a feed bowl, tablets are fed into formed blisters via a Cam Pak thermoform/fill/seal system. Once lidding is applied, blister packs move through an inspection station from SEA Vision (represented in the U.S. by Calia Technical Inc.) and then on to a punch station.
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