Conveying & accumulation

Vertical lift

Vertical reciprocating lift from Intelligrated is used to merge or divert multiple product lines in a space-saving and compact footprint.

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Conveying & accumulation

Safety first in conveying

Shuttleworth, powered by ProMach, demonstrated a conveying system that was long on safety features and also included a Soft Robotics end-of-arm gripper.

November 9, 2016

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Vf/f/s with sanitation-driven design

Model 2015 vf/f/s machine from Pacmac features open-architecture design that makes cleaning easier than ever, and it produces a number of bag styles.

November 9, 2016

Coding, Printing & Labeling

High-speed marking & coding

Videojet's Model 7610 fiber laser marking system is a 100-watt marking and coding solution that is especially suitable for high-speed operations in a variety of applications.

November 9, 2016

Operational Excellence

Serialization from a personal perspective

With the U.S. serialization deadline about a year away, compliance is crucial, especially for patients whose lives may depend on the very medications requiring serialized codes.

November 8, 2016

Operational Excellence

A Personal Perspective on Serialization

With the U.S. serialization deadline only a year away, compliance is crucial, especially for patients whose lives may depend on the very medications requiring serialized codes.

November 8, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Lenze targets commission-time reduction

Alongside an attention-grabbing ball-toss demo, Lenze focused on reduced commission time via demonstrations packed into short timeframes of three, five, and seven minutes.

November 8, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Collaborative robot carton palletizing eliminates safety fence

FlexLink Systems demonstrated an impressive use of two collaborative robots from Universal Robot to unload cartons from a conveyor and place them neatly on a pallet.

November 8, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Maximizing machine flexibility

Packaging demands for flexibility in lot runs and changeovers have prompted several advances from Festo and its partners.

November 8, 2016

Form/fill/seal - horizontal

PAC Machinery bagging systems lean into order fulfillment, e-commerce

With the explosive growth of e-commerce, PAC Machinery is designing systems, like the Magnum line of horizontal and vertical baggers, to meet the unique needs of fulfillment and distribution facilities.

November 8, 2016

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Live From Pharma EXPO: Optel Vision's Serialization Solutions

Optel Vision showed off their track and trace solutions for carton labeling, inspection and report generation.

November 8, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Polypack unveils three new machines at PACK EXPO

Polypack debuted its new all-in-one end-of-line system, glue-free wrapper for tapered cups, and a compact, high-speed pharma bundler machines during PACK EXPO.

November 8, 2016

Operational Excellence

RM2 launches a smart pallet, uses AT&T's LTE-M to harness IoT

RM2ELIoT, a fully integrated, zero maintenance, long-life, IoT-based track and trace solution uses AT&T’s LTE-M network to boost connections for IoT.

November 8, 2016