Schneider Electric / ELAU MC-4/11/03/400 PowerDrive Motion Controller

Drive Concepts of Packaging Machines

Modern machine concepts in the packaging industry are characterized by the need for high dynamism, flexibility, modularity and efficiency. Packaging machines were traditionally equipped with a mechanical vertical shaft, which drove the secondary motions in the machine, usually with mechanical components with complicated motion functions. Designing such a machine, flexible for different products is a highly complex task. Even minor changes in the packaging process, particularly in case of a product change, require major modifications and standstill time. Packaging machines with electronic vertical shafts permit full flexibility. Electronic servo drive systems replace cam and coupling gears and a virtual electronic vertical shaft ensures that the motion axes are synchronous. Any pulse and angle synchronous movements are determined by a central control.

Unplanned machine states, such as stop or emergency off situations or initialization movements can be realized synchronously. Dynamic changes of the goods to be packed or the packaging material in the plant, (like slippage of the products to be packed or expansion of the packaging material) can be registered by sensors while the machine is running and eliminated by modifying the corresponding drive movements. This development substantially changes and highly simplifies the classical mechanical machine concept. The structure of the packaging machine can be broken down into modules that are easy to apply and can be standardized

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