Digital packaging machinery not only provides greater throughput and greater equipment flexibility, but also adds many new features such as remote maintenance, integration with the company's ERP system, and evaluation of production data.
Only a few years ago, no one would have expected the rapid speed of packaging machinery to digital. As the speed of the electronic process is getting faster and faster, there is a need to increase the distribution box. However, when the number of cables required for the bus system can be greatly reduced, and the presence of a decentralized computer, it means that it is no longer necessary to increase the size of the distribution box. Nowadays, stand-alone
Electric boxes are no longer necessary in the packaging industry, and digital packaging machines take up less space than previous mechanical or electromechanical packaging machines.
Automation brings change to packaging
The automation era of the packaging industry began about 20 years ago when all-mechanical equipment was equipped with a programmable logic controller PLC for controlling the logic functions and the mechanical power shaft of the drive. However, the flexibility of this first generation of automation equipment is not satisfactory. Consumer products, especially food, have shortened life cycles and diversified products, stimulating greater demand for equipment flexibility. In the second generation of automation equipment developed later, more and more functions were transferred from the mechanical power shaft to the electronic drive system, and the logic function was still controlled by the PLC system.
