Materials and machinery

A year after the official presentation, the Omron Sysmac integrated automation platform has not only won the appreciation of the market, thanks to its speed, ease of programming and reliability, but Omron is relaunching it with new developments in the CPU, input and output modules, the possibility of managing delta robots and the addition of safety functions. L.G.

A new range of coders with continuous inkjet, thermal ink jet and laser technologies, not to mention the innovative code integrity solution CLARiSUITE: the many Videojet Technologies solutions presented at Emballage met with excitement and interest among visitors. The exhibitor’s strategic position and large, bright, elegant and striking stand did the rest, such that at the end of the event, 600…

EXACTA FP 12/6 is a latest generation filling-capping monoblock developed by Ronchi Mario SpA, created with the help of over half a century of experience in the construction of bottling installations used by major global personal care and household brands.

The research presented by Macfrut - Cesena Fiera compares consumption of fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables between May of 2011 and the same month of 2012. Calculations by Fruitimprese pertaining to foreign trade in certain product type areas show a positive balance of trade. 

Innovative, reliable, flexible  solutions for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetics, tea & coffee and food industry: the IMA Group's offer at Emballage, with some novelties.

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-…

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

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

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*

Here are the results of the Tube of the Year 2012 competition organized by the European tube producers' association, Etma. There are four winners for four categories: aluminium, plastic, laminate and prototype tubes. Synthesis of the judgments

Interest in the web-to-print is growing and a successful operator in the sector, Pixartprinting, is able to give exhaustive answers to questions from potential users. It does so in a systematic and detailed way on its website (www.pixartprinting.it) and also from the pages of ItaliaImballaggio. In this issue, updates about the ability to print labels "online": a service put in place recently and…

In this month's column, we're looking at the subject of diagnostics and preventive maintenance.

Today, Valco Melton is one of the world’s leading, industry standards in packaging adhesive application systems for hot melt dispensing, cold gluing, and quality inspection systems.

Pack Expo 2012 is an important packaging sector show-event, scheduled 28th to 31st October in Chicago. Cama USA, the US branch of the Cama group, will be taking part as a leading light, offering a preview on the US market some of its secondary packaging lines which are sure to arouse interest.
 

The leading end users of the Packaging & Processing world aim for greater flexibility, improved system efficiency, and reduced integration and maintenance costs. This goal can be reached with the aid of centralised control for the entire production site; this in turn requires standardised processes and system data.