Packaging

Packaging

Packaging machines encompass a wide variety of applications including form/fill/seal (vertical and horizontal), slitting, wrapping, labeling, slicing, die-cutting, blister packaging, and inserters.  Kollmorgen has provided solutions for all of these applications.  A common thread among most of these applications is that they involve motion control of a web of material.  Webs require specific handling to balance tension control, speed, accuracy, and edge guide.  Kollmorgen Automation Suite (KMS) provides an easy-to-program, high performance solution for running webs at high speeds with excellent control (proper tensioning and reduced breakage/scrap).

Kollmorgen Automation Suite along with critical motion components provide the packaging machine designer with new possibilities to make machines faster, more accurate, and take up less floor space.

KMS benefits for packaging and web handling machine builders:

• Plug & play, KMS-integrated, AKM, DDR, linear postioners and linear tables servo systems providing cost conscious solutions for all motion requirements.
• Faster development time…reduction up to 50% because of ease of integration of the KMS systems solution with plug & play components and simple software.
• Faster machine throughput, better accuracy, or reduced scrap…increase of up to 50% due to tightly integrated motion functions…motion is our core.
• Global manufacturing and support capability

Many packaging machine designs have transitioned from mechanical line shafting to distributed servo designs.  While this has provided a significant improvement in flexibility of the machine, much can still be improved through motion enhancements.  KMS provides this new dimension to improve throughput on traditional packaging machines driving double digit increases in throughput.

Contact Kollmorgen and talk to a packaging expert about how we can provide a complete machine automation solution and make your machine hum….Because Motion Matters.