Food Manufacturing

Family miller first on the E-Pac case

A specialist miller and supplier of fine flours to the UK supermarkets has become the first company to put Pacepacker and Endoline's new E-Pac optimised case packing system to the test. Close cooperation between the two companies yielded a bespoke three-step case erecting, packing and sealing system that has eliminated manual handling on the flour packing line.

17th November 2016

Spanish winery raises a glass to Fanuc fleet

With the global taste for Spanish bubbly continuing to flourish, Freixenet - one of the country's leading producers and exporters of sparkling wine - this year toasts two decades of successful collaboration with FANUC and its yellow robots.

3rd November 2016

Cube67 fieldbus system reduces setup time

Fluid Brasil, a subsidiary of the MANN+HUMMEL group, uses Murrelektronik's Cube67 fieldbus system in their drinking water filtration and wastewater treatment systems on disposal sites.

2nd November 2016

Movicon SCADA helps creamery generate power from cheese waste

A new anaerobic digestion plant built by Lake District Biogas at First Milk's Aspatria creamery site in Cumbria has been installed to generate bio-methane. It is producing over £3m per year in cost savings, while supplying up to 25 per cent of the creamery's energy requirements. Providing full control and visualisation of the system is a Movicon SCADA system provided by Products4Automation.

26th October 2016

Spelsberg offers farmers world-class electrical enclosures

Farming and agriculture already rely on many different technologies, and the sector will become increasingly technical as it strives to increase productivity and meet the demands of a growing world population. Distributing electrical power around farms brings some special requirements, which Spelsberg is well equipped to address.

26th October 2016

Direct drive and motion controllers for automated decoration

A fully servo-driven machine that can be used for various types of printing and lacquering. The machine has the capability to increase production whilst retaining high quality: today Todema meets the goal - thanks to CDDR direct drive motors and to the Kollmorgen AKD PDMM motion controller.

13th October 2016

Innovative gear motors help to make fresh coffee less of a grind

Coffee is big business. It's the most popular drink worldwide with around two billion cups consumed every day. In the UK around three-quarters of adults drink instant coffee, and around 50 per cent drink fresh, or ground coffee - and this "˜premium' sector is one of one of the fastest-growing sectors of the market. Among the key challenges facing the design of modern coffee grinders is grinding beans at the required rate, as reliably and as quietly as possible. Rotalink have helped a premium coffee machine manufacturer based in Switzerland, by providing motors and gearboxes which have proven to be very effective for their machines.

11th October 2016

Automatic CMS prevents unplanned downtime of pumps

Increased noise and vibration levels on two centrifugal pumps at the Perlenbach water treatment plant in Germany were causing bearing defects, which could have led to pump failure, posing a threat to water supplies. To prevent this, Perlenbach changed from regular patrol pump monitoring to a continuous online system from Schaeffler. The SmartQB, which now detects any signs of wear or damage to the bearings early before the pumps fail. Unplanned downtime of up to several weeks combined with significant damage amounting to several thousands of Euros was therefore prevented.

27th September 2016

PDMM AKD motion controllers for lacquering of screw caps

Thanks to CDDR direct drive motors and to the Kollmorgen PDMM AKD motion controller, a fully servo-driven machine that can be used for various types of printing and lacquering has the capability to increase production whilst retaining high quality for Todema.

22nd September 2016

Food logistic system combines Motoman robot with Siemens PLC

A collaboration between Yaskawa and an intralogistics and packaging company has resulted in the development of an automatic robot-based palletising cell which takes robotics handling to new levels of sophistication. The food logistics system developed by MPS Food Logistics Systems based in the Netherlands features a Profinet interface which enables the Motoman handling robotic system from Yaskawa to be programmed and operated via a Siemens TIA portal.

20th September 2016

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