Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Know About Impact of Automation in Packaging

Manufacturers are facing a lot of challenges constantly for finding new ways to reduce the cost of the packaging processes. In order to meet the new challenges of increasing global competition, manufacturers are forced to reduce the cost. Certainly, cost cutting means automating manual processes and increasing the levels of automation for semi automated devices. Packaging is traditionally done by the usage of fixed automation. For the high speed and for high volume processes fixed automation will be the best solution.

Packaging is benefited mostly from the fixed automation. It is very of high cost. So in order to reduce the cost we can use small robots for packaging. These small robots are used in the packaging industry. Even the system integrators play a major role in packaging industry. The automation of the complete system simplifies the integration of the system. The advantages of the automation system are utilized in practical applications with a combination of scale: A multi headed scale combined with a packaging machine, is operated via the packaging machine controller. The modern maintenance system reduces the running costs of the equipment.

Thus Packaging is a special case that manufacturers use in every industry. In some companies skids, shrink wraps and labels are used. Many packaging machines are being interfaced with PLC’s for operating , tracking and controlling the machine’s progress.

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