Secondary Packaging

Crashing pixels rather than steel

What if packaging machinery OEMs could design new machines or make modifications to existing machines and actually run those machines virtually before bending any metal?

January 9, 2017

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Secondary Packaging

Customized can cartoning

Versatile cartoning system meets Summit Brewing’s need for can-count flexibility and fast changeover.

January 9, 2017

Robotics

The robot revival

IDC’s latest report forecasts technological shifts in the robot market that will impact business models, system functionality, skillsets, regulations, and more.

January 5, 2017

Robotics

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December 29, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Banded bundles abandon the box

Carton converter cuts costs by adopting straight-to-the-pallet banding system that requires no outer corrugated casing of the flats.

December 20, 2016

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Pharmaceutical CMO installs high-speed bottling line

Pharma Tech Industries employs unscrambling, filling, checkweighing, metal detection, capping, sealing, bundling and case packing equipment at its Missouri facility.

December 14, 2016

Secondary Packaging

A vision-based delta robot for food and pharma

Cavanna Packaging Group demos its latest robotic solutions targeted for cookie, cracker, frozen food and pharma applications. The pick-and-place system uses Cognex vision software and Rockwell processors while the carbon fiber two-axis robot can pick up to 50 times per minute in a small footprint.

December 13, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Axon appoints Latin American sales, customer support manager

Axon promoted Jose Arroyo to Latin American sales and customer support manager to provide sales service activities for a growing customer base.

December 6, 2016

Secondary Packaging

A vision-guided pick-and-place robot is easy to integrate

The VGR 2000 automated robotic pick-and place packer accurately picks, turns and places individual flow-wrapped packages into small cartons. The carton-filler fits perfectly into a complete Bradman Lake Group line comprising a flow wrapper, carton former and carton closer.

December 5, 2016

Robotics

An automated transport system shuttles products or packages individually

The SuperTrak programmable transport system from B&R Automation enables advanced manufacturing and packaging processes by synchronizing multiple external coordinated axes. Ethernet POWERLINK and Automation Studio software power the system, which is designed for harsh environments.

December 5, 2016

Secondary Packaging

A snack food bag case loader that is hygienic and ergonomic

The HFP Base system from Focke & Co. gently loads snack food bags and pouches into cases within a narrow footprint that is only six feet wide. The clean design has no horizontal surfaces and is "open" for easy operator monitoring.

December 5, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Case packer switches quickly from horizontal to vertical

The "Swing" horizontal and vertical packer (HVP) from Blueprint is a robotic solution for feeding bags, pouches and rigid containers into cases at up to 300 packages per minute. Used with Smart-Trak collation inloading, the HVP's servo-driven robotic end-effector picks and places packages gently into cases.

December 5, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Automated palletizer for intricate stacking patterns

Intelligrated's Alvey 891i palletizer handles both single and multi-line operations for a wide variety of secondary packaging types with high-level, row-forming capabilities and operator-friendly features.

December 2, 2016