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The iTrak 5730 on display at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019

Rockwell Readies Next-Gen Intelligent Track System

The smaller footprint iTrak 5730 integrates motion and safety, providing simplified programming and better diagnostics.

The SCARA robot on the Douglas top-load case packer collates pouches and then inserts them into a case.

Robotic top loader

There was no shortage of robotics in the Central Hall of PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

Social media push pitted fictional Mike against fictional Ike in an equally fictional falling out.

Mike and Ikes Bounce Back via Social Media

A successful social media campaign put Mike and Ikes back into the regular movie theater and checkout line rotation. The big bump required a major automation installation.

Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 6000

Rockwell Automation: Compact variable frequency drive

The Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 6000 medium voltage variable frequency drive from Rockwell Automation is available in three smaller frame sizes are in configurations ranging from 2.4 to 4.16 kV and 0 to 215 A.

Peeps are loaded into trays by the JLS Talon robotic pick-and-place system, featuring ABB FlexPicker vision-guided robots and Soft Robotics gripper EOATs.

Robotic Lines Clear Peeps’ Automation Hurdles

Produced in the billions, PEEPS® are so fragile and their packaging formats so varied that they resisted automation until a gentle but fast robotic pick and place primary packaging system solved a host of problems at once.

J&L uses the rotary DOSOMAT to fill, seal, and cap its cream cheese spreads in 8-oz retail cups at 75 cups/min.

Cup filler makes quick work of thick, sticky cream cheese

J&L Food Specialties invests in a rotary piston filling and sealing machine that easily packages its viscous cream cheese spreads with speed and accuracy, resulting in a savings of $75,000 plus/yr.

In addition to this 800-g package, DMK Baby also produces an 1100-g and a 650-g package.

Infant milk formula debuts in gas-tight composite can

DMK Baby saw this package, which is assembled on site at the food manufacturer’s facility, as the perfect format for a new line of powdered infant milk formula. Consumers are definitely taking notice.

Replacing a pair of integrated linear thrusters with a SCARA robotic arm has greatly simplified the container metering system on Douglas Machine’s Contour 60-Series shrink wrap multipackers.

SCARA robot and unified machine control

Douglas Machine moves from integrated linear thrusters to robotics and picks a single PLC for both robotic kinematics and traditional machine functions.

Among the 20 different package formats run on the new robotic cartoner is a shelf-ready retail display.

Cartoning cookies at 330/min

Italian cookie company stays competitive through investment, with its latest purchase a robotic monoblock case former/loader/sealer coupled with an automatic wraparound case packer.