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High-speed poucher consolidates control

One control integrates logic, motion, operator interface, even temperature control, for a high-speed pouching machine.

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In desiging its third-generation servo-driven Soluble Pouch Packaging System (SPPS) Cloud (Des Plaines IL) became the first U.S. company to use Siemens Energy & Automation’s (Alpharetta GA) Simotion technology. Simotion combines motion control logic and other technological functions in a single integrated system.

“We needed a multi-axis controller that could do coordinated motion human-machine interface and temperature control” says Cloud Electrical Engineer Todd Hartman. “Typically with other technologies this would be done with separate controllers. Simotion allowed us to do all of this in the PLC with one software package.”

According to Hartman the company specified Simotion to accommodate an expanding export market.

“We engineered this machine for global acceptance and to tighten up the accuracy of the process” Hartman said noting Siemens’ global presence. “In addition by using Simotion I didn’t have to write a logic control program then write a motion program in a separate device and try to communicate between the two. Everything is built into a single platform. That works very well for us.”

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