Coding, Printing & Labeling

Live From Interphex: Carton printing track and trace module

The Bosch CPS800 is a carton printing system module, which consists of a print and a camera to automatically print and verify up to 400 cartons per minute. Tracking data is printed onto the product and automatically checked for accuracy by the camera with reads each printed digit. Within milliseconds it compares the human-readable text with the 2D data matrix code and verifies it for accuracy.

May 8, 2012

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Material handling

Live From Interphex: New Easy-to-Use Temperature Loggers

Vaisala introduces the Vaisala Cold Chain logger CCL 100. A new logger which records and monitors time and temperature during the transport of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, biologics, and other perishable products. It's thin, and small, and it comes pre-calibrated and programmed. Provides 21 CFR Part 11-compliant records for temperature, relative humidity, differential pressure, level, door switches, and more.

May 8, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Live from Interphex: Labeling machine for unstable pharma containers

The Monostar Pharma labeler from Capmatic labels small products such as vials, syringes, and ampoules. The track-and-trace capabilities require the removal of a faulty label before it's applied onto the container. This prevents destruction of the entire product due to a labeling error, which can be quite costly.

May 8, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Packaging Technology: Interactive mobile device provides realtime customized data and guidance

Designed to reduce downtime and costs, Bosch Packaging Technology’s CBT Mobile interactive maintenance tool is a portable device that handles customized information to provide detailed technical guidance on packaging format changes, production troubleshooting, and standard operating procedures with immediate on-the-floor access.

May 8, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

LCA helps Kraft measure, improve environmental impacts of packaging

Proprietary Eco-Calculator helps Kraft’s packaging designers create more efficient, sustainable solutions for products, such as the Kraft YES Pack and the Tassimo T Disk.

May 7, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: High-speed modules

AutomationDirect’s Productivity3000 programmable automation controller line includes three new high-speed counter input and pulse output modules.

May 7, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

TURCK, Inc: 24V-switching power supplies

Designed to efficiently convert AC to DC, Turck’s new 24VDC Power Supply family provides safety extra-low voltage (SELV), according to EN 60950, and is suitable for the 24V supply of power to equipment and interface modules of the Turck series IM, IMS and IMC.

May 7, 2012

Containers

Introducing Packaging Efficiency Solutions: A packaging systems innovator

The name is the bottom line, Packaging Efficiency Solutions. Backing up the new company’s claim is a wealth of experience in solid dose bottling lines. Co-founder Andrew Smith explains that PES will both manufacture advanced machinery and offer turnkey systems integration.

May 7, 2012

Flexible packaging

Efficient v/f/f/s for the really big stuff

PKT specializes in bag filling, palletizing and stretch wrapping. New at the IPACK IMA show in Milan Italy was the FPK88, a 2,000+ bag per hour continuous vertical form/fill/seal machine for large bags.

May 7, 2012

Secondary Packaging

New palletizer doubles production

TMG makes case packers and palletizers for rigid bottles. At IPACK IMA in Milan, Italy, TMG introduced the Sirio 2S high level palletizer, capable of handling up to 6,000 bundles per hour. A dynamic manipulation and pre-formation system forms layers without stopping the movement of bundles.

May 7, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeler delivers mechatronic flexibility

At the IPACK IMA show in Milan, Italy, KOSME, a business unit of KRONES, introduced a new labeler using control technology from B&R Industrial Automation.

May 7, 2012

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

Optimizing product flow on the packaging line

In this white paper, Yamato explores the physical relationship of the FFS machine to the upstream equipment.

May 7, 2012

Sustainability

Boston Scientific boxes savings by producing shippers on demand

The company’s Netherlands distribution center reduces freight and corrugated inventory costs with three converting machines that provide a four-month return on investment.

May 7, 2012