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From the tf/f/s system at the head of the line (above) to the robotic palletizer at the end, both of the twin lines at Schering-

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IND560fillplus process weighing terminal

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Process weighing terminal

The newest scale models in the ICS family (left to right) ICS425, ICS435, ICS445, ICS465 and ICS685

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Weighing scales

Rice Lake 920i FlexWeigh Systems

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Machinery > Blister/clamshell/thermoforming

R 685 thermoforming packaging machine

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Thermoforming packaging machine

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Noack N 623

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Blister packaging line

Machinery > Cartoning

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High-speed vertical cartoner

As many as four robots can be integrated into one of Schneider’s RVCL systems, but regardless of the number, each robot controller has integrated within it the hardware and software tools for vision processing.

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Machine vision processing made easy

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Horizontal continuous-motion cartoner for syringes

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Schering-Plough: Cartoning and checkweighing of blister packs

Individual blister packs are mechanically fed into a flighted conveyor that brings them a short distance downstream to where they are inserted into folding cartons via a Marchesini cartoner. Thermal ink-jet coding, powered by Hewlett-Packard and supplied by Nutec, code inspection, also part of the Nutec system, and checkweighing (from Optima) all follow.

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