Machines

Low costs for smaller order quantities, speedy delivery managed efficiently by the same supplier: UPM offers new opportunities in the field of sleeve labels with RafShrink PET Pentafilm 45, a pre-slit transparent polyester film for narrow web printing available from stock.

How do you combine marking and vision systems with checkweighing, optimizing space on production lines? Thermo Scientific proposes an integrated solution that performs all tasks with a single machine.

Specialised in the processing of hard metals and special steel to customer designs or samples, Sicatex Srl, as ever with a keen eye on the needs of the packaging sector,

TOUCH SCREEN In order to manage its own hotmelt applicators and programmers, Robatech has developed RobaVis™: a tool that provides a graphic display of production processes, making their use easy, safe and efficient.

In the field of packaging, the use of robotics is often the only answer to meet both the performance requests (i.e. the combination of technical characteristics such as speed, productivity, overall dimensions and energy optimisation) and the flexibility requests (i.e. the possibility to adapt differing cycles, products, batches, dimensions and directions).

APPLIED RESEARCH Created following a far-reaching global survey and consisting in numerous models with open architecture that respond to users’ diverse needs, the new Unidrive M range launched by Control Techniques, with one eye on the present and the other on the future, is an innovative line of drives for electric motors dedicated entirely to manufacturing automation.
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PRECISION ASSEMBLY A long history of competencies, a present made up of advanced solutions, distributed or made in house according to need; and tomorrow? Innovation - the only true “cure” against the crisis - at least in the opinion of ARS Srl, which proposes itself as a problem solver for every necessity, committed to studying its own robotic assembly and vision systems even for niche or non-…

At Emballage 2012, a new mobile web app enables accessing in real time information on H.B. Fuller products. Yield and advantages of the adhesive Advantra®.

Thanks to the easy installation mechanics and electronics, the pick&place modules are pre-assembled and ready for use, ensuring a rapid system start-up. Fast and programmable, these mechatronic manipulators are driven by linear electric motors.
 

... and develops a technology with Fine Art print quality that sets new standards for digital printing.

«We decided to focus our design and innovation efforts on converting about ten years ago in order to satisfy the requests of our customers», explains Luca Rettore, who together with Mirco Cremasco owns Visonlab (Asolo, TV). Both are experts in artificial vision and acutely aware of the potentials of electronics applied to process and quality control systems.

The market of trays for food products and fresh produce has precise productivity and reliabiilty requirements that inevitably also affect the gluing phase.

The Compact model linear self-adhesive labeler (the latest creation by Packlab, P.E. Labellers group, is conceived as a solution suitable for whoever has problems with space.

The innovative flexible parts feed system developed by Ars Srl under the Flexibowl® brand will be distributed on foreign markets by Adept Technology Inc., an international leader in the field of robots and vision systems.

ROBOTIZED ISLANDS Tiesse Robot has developed an innovative solution for automatic bottle capping for cosmetic products. With a vision system that totally guarantees quality.

EVERYTHING IN A MODULE How to drastically contain maintenance costs and maximize productivity? B&R suggest the use of predictive strategies based on permanent condition monitoring. A function this totally integrated in its traditional control systems.

PRODOTTI AND STRATEGIES The Omron’s Sysmac platform includes a wide and optimised range of devices integrable in EtherCAT, which enables the automatic, integrated, speedy and accurate control of all machine functions.

A POWERFUL ALLIANCE Sight is the most complex of all the senses found in biological or artificial systems. At the same time vision provides the greatest benefit. There is a good reason that processing visual stimuli consumes the most energy in the brain, involving approximately 60% of the cerebral cortex. Abdelmalek Nasraoui*

Seen and awarded: the SpectroPad color spectrophotometer launched at Drupa by Barbieri Electronic (Bressanone, BZ) has already won a prize for innovation, namely the European Digital Press Association (in the photo, the EDP prize handed over to Wolfgang Passler, on the left, and Thomas Liensberger).

De Rossi Vittoriano Srl (Paderno Dugnano, MI) has developed a new system for the production of multi-layer labels (coupons, booklets etc.), adapted for insertion in all printing machine types.