Cartoning

Healthy rewards for Big Heart Pet Brands

Customized carton closing equipment for a package whose shape and graphics make it look like a toothpaste carton was a key to this year’s PMMI Packaging Line of the Year.

November 19, 2014

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 761

Secondary Packaging

Automated palletizer with concurrent stretch wrap

TopTier's Downstacker is a fully automated automatic palletizer with concurrent stretch wrapping, and this must-see video will show you up-close how it works, from case-turning rollers to forming rows, stacking patterns and wrapping pallets with extreme efficiency.

November 18, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Sysmac Machine Automation Controller with Delta robot

See what integrated machine control, robotic control, vision and safety look like in this video of Omron's Sysmac Machine Automation Controller mated to a Delta robot for high-speed part orientation, discrimination and matching with instantaneous communication to an EtherCat network.

November 18, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Compact case packer and palletizer cell

Aagard's small-footprint (9'9" x 13') Aspire combination case packer and palletizer is designed to replace your manual operations. See every step of the process and learn about its robotics, safety features and more.

November 18, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric Motion: Circular connectors on motors

Schneider Electric Motion’s Lexium MDrive products are expanded with the release of CANopen with M12 circular connectors on NEMA motor sizes 23 & 34.

November 18, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

B&R: Controller and PC in one compact housing

Able to be used simultaneously as a high-performance industrial controller as well as a PC for sophisticated HMI applications, the new Automation PC 2100 from B&R can run Automation Runtime and Windows at the same time using Intel Atom multi-core processing technology.

November 18, 2014

Weighing/combination scales

New VSP plus linerless labels

Using revolutionary skin pack technology from Harpak-Ulma and Sealed Air, a Mondini vacuum skin pack machine yields 30% material savings because there is no lidding scrap.

November 17, 2014

Flexible packaging

A proper zippered stand-up pouch

Valteko f/f/s system produces from rollstock a true stand-up pouch with an integrated zipper reclosure feature for added consumer convenience.

November 17, 2014

Contract Packaging

Gluing the virtual seams

It doesn’t matter whether the little black boxes of your supply chain are owned by a single company or spread across a network of outsourcing partners.

November 17, 2014

Conveying & accumulation

Sophisticated control over fluid pumping

Ingersoll-Rand's ARO fluid products provided this dynamic demo showing electronic controls and air-operated, double-diaphragm pumping simplify the accurate delivery of fluid to drums or other containers, adding capabilities to incorporate inputs for temperature and other factors.

November 17, 2014

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Handheld and portable inkjet printers for any surface

AMI demonstrates some of the features, including instant drying, that make its line of handheld and portable inkjet printers a good choice for plastic, metal and glass packaging in food, pharmaceutical and other applications.

November 17, 2014

Plastics/resins

High speed inspection/detection technology for flexible packaging

ISRA Vision produces high-speed inline print inspection systems for flexible packaging. This demo shows what happens when a tiny bit of foreign matter is introduced to the high-speed web of film moving by and how the technology handles detection and instantaneous feedback to the user.

November 17, 2014

Filling/capping, dry

Sanitary filling and sealing system offers chainless benefits

See a new filling and sealing machine tackle filling and sealing cups of dairy product, and learn how eliminating the chain solves traditional problems of chain stretch and misalignments and bumps-up maintenance productivity, too.

November 17, 2014