New dimension in pack labelling performance

At Fach­pack 2019 Mul­ti­vac will be pre­sent­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of cross web labellers. In addi­tion to improved per­for­mance and oper­at­ing reli­a­bil­i­ty, one of the fea­tures of the new mod­els com­pared to the pre­vi­ous labelling solu­tions are their low­er life cycle costs. The use of state-of-the-art com­mu­ni­ca­tion stan­dards such as IO-link and Ether­CAT ensures that they are equipped for the future. This enables addi­tion­al sen­sor sys­tems for exam­ple to be used, such as those for labelling inspec­tion or pre­dic­tive maintenance.

The new cross web labellers are process-con­trolled. Indi­vid­ual move­ments are over­laid as much as pos­si­ble, so that an opti­mised and there­fore sig­nif­i­cant­ly faster labelling process is achieved. Ser­vo dri­ves on all axes, as well as the vir­tu­al­ly con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion of the lon­gi­tu­di­nal shift unit, ensure that the cycle out­put is increased still further.

Higher performance, compact design

The new labellers have been fit­ted with the lat­est gen­er­a­tion of label dis­pensers, which also con­tribute to a high­er cycle out­put thanks to their sophis­ti­cat­ed ser­vo motor tech­nol­o­gy. The use of ser­vo dri­ves also offers the ben­e­fit, that no ref­er­ence runs have to be per­formed before the labelling oper­a­tion is begun — and this means that set-up and con­ver­sion times are reduced, so that the labellers are oper­a­tional more rapidly.

The robust con­struc­tion of the new machine gen­er­a­tion also makes a con­tri­bu­tion to increas­ing the cycle out­put. The axis of the lon­gi­tu­di­nal shift unit is for exam­ple designed with even greater tor­sion­al rigid­i­ty than pre­vi­ous­ly. The machines oper­ate with sig­nif­i­cant­ly less vibra­tion, and their trav­el range can be com­plet­ed in a short­er time. The sim­pli­fied con­struc­tion with its few­er num­ber of deflec­tion rollers accel­er­ates label roll change and makes it even eas­i­er, so that down­time is also reduced. In addi­tion to these ben­e­fits, the more com­pact design also means a reduc­tion in space requirement.

Greater ease of operation, high level of efficiency

The new machine gen­er­a­tion from Mul­ti­vac also sets the bench­mark in the mar­ket for its ease of oper­a­tion. Menu guid­ance has been opti­mised and equipped with an inte­grat­ed wiz­ard func­tion. The sys­tem only needs the required num­ber of cycles to be entered — after that all the rel­e­vant speed and accel­er­a­tion para­me­ters are adjust­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly. The Quick Con­trol pan­el is also inte­grat­ed in the labeller hous­ing, so that the oper­a­tor has less dis­tance to cover.

Removal of the vac­u­um box hood and access to the push­er plate set is quick and easy, and this can be per­formed with­out any tools. The nec­es­sary ser­vice work can be car­ried out in a user-friend­ly way and above all very rapid­ly. The reduc­tion in time and effort increas­es effi­cien­cy and makes itself felt imme­di­ate­ly in the life cycle costs.

Maximum reliability, high level of availability

Par­tic­u­lar impor­tance was attached to machine reli­a­bil­i­ty, espe­cial­ly in view of the high cycle speeds. The con­stant mon­i­tor­ing of trav­el speeds and torque ensures that the high­est lev­el of process and oper­at­ing reli­a­bil­i­ty is achieved even at max­i­mum output.

Thanks to tar­get­ed min­imi­sa­tion of poten­tial faults, Mul­ti­vac has sig­nif­i­cant­ly increased the reli­a­bil­i­ty and avail­abil­i­ty of the labelling sys­tem. The reduc­tion in mov­ing parts and an improve­ment in the cable feed also make a sig­nif­i­cant contribution.

Equipped for the future

The new cross web labellers are already designed for the demands of tomor­row. State-of-the-art com­mu­ni­ca­tion stan­dards such as IO-link and Ether­CAT enable the machines to be equipped with the lat­est sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy. Addi­tion­al solu­tions for labelling inspec­tion can also be eas­i­ly retro­fit­ted, since the cor­re­spond­ing inter­faces are already inte­grat­ed. And last but not least, the labellers are designed for pre­dic­tive maintenance.

Mul­ti­vac at the Fach­pack 2019: Hall 1, Stand 221