Case packer uses a power monitor to minimize energy consumption

A three-axis, side-load case packer receives up-to-the-minute information on energy

Schneider Packaging has made a side-load case packer since the company was founded in the 1970s. The machine’s controls platform has evolved from the days of “hard wiring and pneumatic valves,” as Schneider’s Terry Zarnowski puts it, to PLCs.

Eventually, a Rockwell controls platform emerged as the one put in place most of the time. It’s used, for example, in Schneider’s HCP-10 case packer. Rated at about 12 cases/min, this machine has three axes of servo motion all driven by Kinetix 6000 servo drives and MP-Series low-inertia servo motors. The machine’s main controller is from Rockwell’s CompactLogix series.

The latest modification to the controls package on the HCP-10 case packer, says Zarnowski, who is director of sales and marketing at Schneider, is the use of an energy monitoring device from Rockwell. Called the Power Monitor 1000, it resides in the controls panel and communicates with the machine’s CompactLogix Programmable Automation Controller over an Ethernet connection.

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