Food dispenser and packager
4 Jun 2013
Yaskawa and Micromech have teamed up to design a small motion system to serve the packaging industry.
The main benefit of the solution was gaining a 3 axes motion control system whilst simultaneously maintaining the original Micrologix platform.
By using a servo to drive the dial plate the relationship between index/ dwell can be infinitely variable, and therefore maximises the throughput of the machine even when changing container sizes.
Additional servo control via linear actuators on the container de-nester and product dispenser allows instant changeover with a minimum of mechanical parts.
Programmable volume, speed and drawback on the dispense pump improves fill accuracy and machine throughput.
The performance achieved was a throughput of forty 1kg fills/min and twenty-five 2.5kg fills/min, the index speed is 0.5 sec with an accuracy of <= 7 arc/min.
For more information, please contact Stirling on: 01376 333333 or E-mail: stirling@micromech.co.uk.
