Food packaging machine manufacturers tend to face constant challenges from the various industries to add more motion or/and automation, such that the flexibility demands of the industry can be successfully addressed. Such demands could create several safety issues within packing and packaging industry too. However, it isn’t something to get restless about – there are many solutions to this that could unite successfully the safety of the operators and the flexibility of the machines.
The competition within the industry increases pressure on the food packing machine manufacturers to improve the productivity of its machines, while the innovation cycles are only getting shorter. All these factors continuously demand a greater need for increased flexibility in food packing machine. Such demands cause a significant decrease in multi-pack runs as well as batches built, thus requiring the packaging machines to be able to provide multiple packing solutions from single machine. Such kind of flexibility needs to include an in-built ability to maintain a proper level of efficiency, all the whole performing a swifter product changeover.
Finally, when it comes to the introduction of flexibility in packaging machines, a question tends to arise: “what would be the impact of such flexibility on the safety factor of the machine operator?” this concern has caused the manufacturers to instead look for alternative solutions to packaging machine innovations, which wouldn’t just maximize the productivity, but would provide more flexibility as well. Motion control system paired with automation of machines have been able to provide the packaging industry with such level of flexibility, while keeping operator-safety in mind.
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