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Controls package brings servo benefits to bagger

An ‘off-the-shelf’ as opposed to proprietary controls solution brings multiple benefits to this maker of vf/f/s baggers.

The MP-940 machine controller governs both logic and motion.
The MP-940 machine controller governs both logic and motion.

When packaging machinery OEM Kliklok-Woodman modernized its Compak II vertical bag maker with servo-driven as opposed to mechanically linked film advance, it selected an “off-the-shelf” controls package from Yaskawa.

“In the past we would have relied on a proprietary controls platform developed here in house,” explains Kliklok-Woodman vice president Ross Long. “But we’ve come to realize that we can get better motion control and higher machine reliability with the new-generation controls package from Yaskawa.” The servo-based Compak II became available in 2005.

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