Automation and controls

From among the automation solutions it has developed for the packaging sector, Datalogic brought to Ipack-Ima new offers from its Sensors & Safety and Machine Vision business units.

Distributed by K.L.A.IN.robotics, Veltru AG parallel kinematic robots and application supports simplify complex manipulation tasks, even for packaging bell peppers.

Manufacturers require an ever increasing degree of flexibility and uniqueness in production: technologies and terms like big Data and IoT have entered the vocabulary of automation, and Omron offers responses adequate to the trend by developing innovative products.

Servotecnica proposes SRC 032 slip rings, indispensable for powering electric resistance and monitoring blade temperatures in packaging machines (heated electrically to enable cutting and sealing plastic film).

Advanced automation and robotics solutions serving the packaging sector by Yaskawa Italia, such as Total System Solution: an integrated and optimized system, made up of new MPP3S (high speed pick&place and compact robots)  along with inverters and servo-drives, controls, a linear SGT track, VIPA HMI and I/O and PLC/standard SLIO CPU systems.

Maximum computing power and more intelligence in a smart factory? Beckhoff’s new generation of C6670 industrial servers guarantees high efficiency and precision.

Advanced Remote Assistance (ARA) is the new AcmaVolpak tool, simple to install and easy to use.

Achema Rockwell Automation shows how its DCS PlanPAx distributed control solutions help integrate all the automation functions in a single system: processing and power, safety and other systems. It can also connect itself to other systems - supply chain, power resources, customer orders etc.

The signs revealed in the second half of 2014 showing a good run of the packaging and food processing sector are consolidating: the first months of 2015 have in fact seen a reinforcement of the growth dynamic across the entire sector (suppliers of technology, materials and services associated with activities of processing and packaging food and other products, and the users of these products and…

Omron technology has been the keystone of the development of a new gantry robot palletizer build by New-Motion that in only six weeks, has developed an accurate, productive, versatile, userfriendly and economical system.

For the global market Parker Hannifin has created the axis controller called Parker Automation Controller (PAC), which combines in a single, highly effective solution machine logic, real time motion control and visual display.

February 25 witnessed the third edition of Innovations Day, the much awaited and exclusive event dedicated to B&R technological innovations, which saw the participation of 120 machine builders. The event was a repeat success of the previous editions, confirming it as an opportunity for automation professionals to swap info and gain further insight as to the solutions on offer.

Smart Drive is the solution developed by Lenze that enables the drastic reduction (up to 70% less) of the number of motor reduction unit variants normally required, achieving variable speed applications and constant torque, with a single motor-reducer combination.

A market demand to satisfy, a new design to create: together with Bosch Rexroth, Movipack creates a “cost-cutting” casepacker that is unique in its class.

Sipro srl is an Italian company that designs, engineers and manufactures hardware and software for motion control for more than 30 years. The last born in the family of products Sipro is the new numerical control SIAX A100, an all-in-one, compact and affordable solution with special features for packaging machines.

Schmalz, the vacuum specialist, at Ipack-Ima 2015 (Hall 10 - Stand E28) will be presenting the compact series of SCPS/SCPSi ejectors with the new Eco nozzle system.

Moscow, 16-19 June 2015. The twentieth RosUpack international packaging show will be held in Moscow’s international expo center “Crocus Expo”.

The expertise acquired over the years is encouraging PRL Tecnosoft, specialist in end-of-line, to offer itself on the international markets, to which it offers solutions and a comprehensive service.

Global provider of technology that favors the increase of productivity, efficiency and quality of the systems and facilities in a wide range of industries, Emerson Industrial Automation, an Emerson (NYSE: EMR) company, will be at SPS IPC DRIVES (Parma, 12 -14 May 2015) presenting drives & motors solutions dedicated to applications in the processing and manufacturing industries.

Now available the new Profinet communications module (connectable to the left of the base unit) for Pilz’s configurable safety system PNOZmulti 2, which thus becomes even more flexible with the offer of a further communications option in addition to Ethernet/IP, CANopen, EtherCAT, Modbus TCP, Profibus DP and Powerlink.