Automation solutions for sustainable packaging

Beckhoff offers highly efficient and low-consumption automation solutions for packaging machines thanks to PC and EtherCAT-based control.

Ideal for applications in which high speed and precision are essential, Beckhoff control technology is the ideal answer to the automation needs of packaging processes.

Advantages for the packaging industry

Beckhoff’s solutions offer the packaging and wrapping market end-to-end innovative technological solutions for all packaging applications, enriched by:

• expert advice thanks to profound knowledge of the sector;
• flexibility in the design of machines with intelligent product transport systems;
• customised solutions thanks to a modular and scalable portfolio.

Full integration with Beckhoff Vision

Beckhoff has developed a complete artificial vision offer for the market which is today recognised as an essential element in many applications, where there is a need for integrated management with control within a framework of simple but high-performance solutions.

Beckhoff Vision guarantees machine manufacturers and final users a complete image processing system that includes all the necessary components, from the software to the illuminators.

Perfectly integrated with EtherCAT-based control technology, it offers users significant competitive advantages, including extremely accurate synchronisation with all the machine processes, a reduction of design and hardware costs, as well as the simplification of start-up and assistance. Besides the TwinCAT Vision software, the range of vision products now includes a series of hardware components, and in particular:

• VCS2000 area scan video camera;
• robust C VOS2000 and VOS3000 lenses with mount;
• multicolour LED bar, panel and ring illuminators (VIB2000, VIP2000 and VIR2000);
• complete Vision Unit Illuminated (VUI) composed of video camera, illuminators and optics with runtime adjustable focus.

With Beckhoff Vision, real-time image processing can be easily integrated into new and existing control environments, as well as optimally synchronised with all machine and plant processes. In this way, the rigid separation between vision and automation technology is further reduced thanks to the integration of the system in all environments. Finally, Beckhoff Vision components offer robust and attractive design, high scalability and long-term availability. The complete vision system offered by the Beckhoff Vision range, composed of hardware and software for industrial use, synchronisable with all control processes, guarantees interaction with all the other components, implementation with the standard automation application, as well as optional lighting (unit), which is integrated or available separately.

Direct integration, in fact, simplifies vision project planning, offering advantages both in terms of a reduction in costs and of design and engineering, ensuring easy integration and the start-up of the system, without forgetting immediate assistance guaranteed by Beckhoff’s after-sales services.