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

B&R announces winners of PACK EXPO student competition

PMMI has an unflagging commitment to education and workforce development, and with the help of the PMMI Education and Training Foundation provided travel scholarships to 170 students and instructors coming out to PACK EXPO.

December 5, 2012

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Controls & Machine Components

Take a quick virtual tour

See the latest in packaging automation technology from B&R Industrial Automation, all in just 3 1/2 minutes.

December 5, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Small-footprint top-load case packer

Prodec exhibited a very compact case packer whose top-load format makes it an especially flexible solution.

December 5, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Case packing robot plus a dual robot for soft-serve yogurt franchises

A dual robot for soft-serve yogurt was one of the highlights at Yaskawa Motoman's Pack Expo booth, but also featured was a compact, cost-effective case packaging robot.

December 4, 2012

Secondary Packaging

How to optimize case packing and sealing

The 2252 Flex E Pak system from Wexxar Bel helps you combine the right case former with the right product delivery and packaging solution all teamed up with the best case sealer for the application.

December 4, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Robotic case packer for 14,000 bottles/hr

The Robomax 200 from Italproject, which is capable of case packing 14,000 bottles/hr, uses a specially designed feedscrew principle and an ABB robot.

December 4, 2012

Cartoning

Mediseal demonstrates pharma stick pack machine

Koerber Medipak’s Mediseal group produces customized, flexible sachet and stick pack machines, sideload cartoners and blister machines. All use B&R control systems to deliver flexible servo-driven modules customized to user requirements.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

TopTier’s Downstacker uses advanced drive technology

New Downstacker series palletizers from TopTier support from 11 to 30 high performance drives to maximize performance. The control technology, from B&R Industrial Automation, has reduced wiring, simplified startup and maintenance.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Dividella pharma cartoner runs 80 to 240 cartons per minute

Using a hundred servo axes, the reconfigurable, GMP design, modular Dividella cartoner from Koerber Medipak provides rapid changeover, recipe management, data access, detailed diagnostics, and simplified parameterization instead of programming, all from a graphical HMI. The control system from B&R features a unified software and hardware platform and is housed underneath the machine frame, minimizing footprint. Interfaces for vision and coding systems simplify integration.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

High speed shrink bundler from Cermex

VersaFilm shrink bundler reduces the need for corrugated material and achieves 1,000 bottle per minute throughputs with over 98% efficiency, using a new B&R automation platform. User friendly screen helps operators and technicians access information to maximize uptime.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Package Machinery servo overwrapper interacts with operator

Package Machinery Company exhibited a 6-axis servo-driven overwrapper with a B&R control system that includes a 10-inch touch panel providing operational controls, safety, diagnostics, temperature, changeover videos, status, and even a complete machine manual.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Robotic cartoning of aseptic pouches

Ecolean aseptic pouch is robotically packaged by Schneider Electric delta-style robots on a pick-and-place machine from AMC2.

November 30, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Dual-infeed palletizer handles products from two different lines

TopTier's dual-infeed Robotier robotic palletizer with integrated, concurrent stretch wrapping for case, bag, and bundle palletizing; receives two distinct products from two different product lines, wrapping loads as they're built.

November 29, 2012