Welcome to Automation Strategies from Packaging World magazine, sponsored exclusively by B&R Industrial Automation. This e-magazine highlights cutting edge automation technologies and their trend-setting capabilities.
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Manual workstations located along transport systems have traditionally relied on rigid intrinsic safety solutions that cannot be changed or switched off. Like traditional cobots, such solutions remain slow and limited in force even when no humans are near the track.
In contrast, collaborative ACOPOStrak workstations combine maximum operator protection with maximum productivity: safety functions can be activated and deactivated dynamically during runtime. Safely limited speed and force values can be adjusted on-the-fly based on shuttle payload. A safe setup mode enables the track to continue production even if an operator is close – boosting the availability factor of OEE. Learn more by watching a video on human and track collaboration here.
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Makro Labelling North America, has introduced an adaptive labeling machine built on the latest B&R track technology. Securing bottle plates and necks with two synchronized ACOPOStrak systems, the Makro C Leap machine frees container and label formats from the constraints of conventional labeling machinery.
As Simone Marcantoni, a founding partner and Head of Makro Labelling’s Automation Department explains, “the C Leap is based on B&R’s ACOPOStrak technology, which replaces the traditional carousel. The layout is two stacked circuits using ACOPOStraks. The shuttles of the lower circuits carry platforms that hold the bottles, while the upper circuits carry the caps. The synchronized circuits move the bottles between the infeed and outfeed star wheels. View more here.
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R.A. Jones exhibited its latest advance in integrated packaging technology at PACK EXPO 2018: the Criterion CLI-100 intermittent cartoner. Equipped with the IndeCart 3 (also known as the B&R SuperTrak®), this machine allows for a flexible product pitch as well as rectifying infeed from upstream equipment that is not synchronized to the cartoner. View more here.
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With the world's first machine vision solution to be seamlessly incorporated into the automation system, B&R offers a truly unprecedented level of integration. The cameras, intelligent image processing algorithms and innovative lighting portfolio are an integral part of the B&R control system.
View more about this intelligent machine vision solution here.
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How a technique from the 1970s can be used to leverage well-recognized measurements such as Operational Equipment Effectiveness and Total Productive Maintenance to transform brownfield plants into digital ones. Read more here.
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Equipment is built to last and last. How can we justify replacing millions of dollars' worth of legacy machinery with new equipment designed to produce one custom unit at a time? Where's the profit in that? Read this report to learn how to benefit from the flexibility, efficiency, and increased savings of batch-of-one manufacturing.
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