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Servos bring flexibility to re-engineered labeler

Integrated servo motor/drives on the rotating carousel of a 12-station labeler permit nearly limitless bottle size changeovers.

SERVO INTEGRATION. K2 milled the labeler's bottle table (above) to accept these quick-change modular servo cartridges that contr
SERVO INTEGRATION. K2 milled the labeler's bottle table (above) to accept these quick-change modular servo cartridges that contr

A recently built cold-glue labeler from K2 Engineering (www.k2egroup.com) whose individual bottle plates are servo driven is capable of an infinite range of electronic cam profiles. This allows the end user to run just about whatever bottle size or shape it chooses. Since Yakima Juice, the end user in this case, is a contract packager doing up to three size changes daily on this particular line, the flexibility is especially welcome.

“Conventional mechanical camming is just not flexible enough for this kind of application,” says Ed Stefaniak, manager director at K2. “It's designed for one container. If you want to introduce another shape or size, you need a different mechanical cam track profile, which can take 6-10 weeks for delivery and maybe a couple of days of installation and commissioning. With servo-based technology, on the other hand, you don't have to do that. You select a new cam profile at the touch screen and you're up and running. All the data for the new cam comes from the controller.”

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