Automation and controls

Developed by WITTENSTEIN alpha, premo® is a new high performance, fully scalable and modular servo actuator platform.

Partnering with customers to automate their packaging lines, Cama offers comprehensive innovative machinery and service solutions, adding tangible value to their business operations.

Tenenga and Tecno-Soft will be organizing an emblematic event on September 20, 2019: “Among the engines of innovation. Come and discover the technologies to improve your processes”.

Automation for the digital and flexible industry on show at SPS: discovering the trends that are guiding development and production. Review of solutions dedicated to the world of packaging, with a first focus on the evolution of sensors. First part.
By Maurizio Cacciamani

The SPS fair in Parma was an opportunity to meet Horst-Dieter Kraus, Marketing Manager of Pilz GmbH & Co. Kg. ItaliaImballaggio did not miss the opportunity to address the “safety & security” theme in Italy and in Europe with one of the sector leaders, also seeking to know its future development plans.

With increasing automation, intelligent control of the flow of goods in conveyor systems also plays an increasingly important role.

Free-floating movers with six degrees of freedom. Mover flottanti a sei gradi di libertà. Thanks to planar movers that float freely above arbitrarily arranged planar tiles it is possible to obtain extremely flexible, precise and highly dynamic positioning. The XPlanar system by Beckhoff is opening up new avenues in machine and plants design, ensuring maximum flexibility and simplification.

Industry 4.0: reflections emerged from the comparison with some protagonists of the SMART area of Cosmopack. The word goes to Pietro Cassani, CEO of Marchesini Group (Supply of complete lines and machines for packaging pharmaceutical and cosmetics products).

Our excursus on Industry 4.0 starts with a company in some ways anomalous in the SMART area of Cosmopack: in fact Nastri-Tex does not produce "hard" machines for manufacturing cosmetics, but provides a fundamental consumable for creating make-up and therefore essential to the success of the "packaging system" as a whole.

According to Franco Comoli, president of CMI Industries, speaking of Industry 4.0 means talking about rules and methods to implement digital end-to-end processes, with the aim of increasing productivity and controlling costs, and this applies as much to the machine manufacturer as to the user.

The functions of Industry 4.0, within FT System, and of the Arol group of which the company is a part, have been implemented following two main directions: the first is to integrate the inspection and control systems with the other machines in the line to optimize their operation; the second is aimed at monitoring the functioning of individual machines to retrieve information for predictive…

To celebrate its "twenty years of Cosmopack", Omas Tecnosistemi has done things on a big scale. In addition to presenting the most recent developments of mixers and tube filling machines, an automatic monoblock for filling mascara and lipgloss and a monoblock for perfumes with roll-on, the company made a significant contribution to the Factory 2019 "NO-CO- no compromise" (where, together with…

The evolution of ELECTRIC: Thus IDM Automation Srl presented itself at the 2019 edition of Cosmopack, bringing to the fair the e-MF302, a fully electric plastic and glass bottle filling machine, which integrates two Mitsubishi scara robots, one dedicated to loading and one to unloading of the bottles.

The 4.0 of Italian manufacturers. Dossier realized with the contribution of Nastri Tex, Marchesini Group, CMI, IDM Automation, Omas Tecnosistemi, FT System. By Stefano Lavorini, Luciana Guidotti and Chiara Giannangeli.

Combining the performance of a Logix control engine with the efficiency of the Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise operating system, the CompactLogix 5480 controller from Allen Bradley (a brand of Rockwell Automation) displays machine information at its source, allowing workers to make smarter and faster operating decisions.

Zetapunto is an innovative manufacturing startup that develops robotic solutions, with the ambition of also making industrial robotics accessible to Italian SMEs.

Efficiency, robustness and reduced dimensions: these are the characteristics that mark the difference of the V-Drive series compared to market standards and make it suitable even for the most severe applications.

Cama realizes modular and highly flexible automation systems for the secondary packaging of various types of consumer goods, that can deliver multiple shelf-ready formats. And a close active collaboration with an HPC customer results in a concept for the packaging of aerosol cans that redefines industry standards.

Direct field experience and constant staff update: DCM's responses to the needs of machine builders.

Beckhoff now offers a machine learning (ML) solution that is seamlessly integrated into TwinCAT 3 software.