Packaging Machinery

Packaging machine builders face a variety of challenges ranging from company and supplier issues to customer demands and competitive pressures. See how you can leverage the broad range of packaging machine technologies Control Techniques can provide and are easily accepted by your customers.

Packaging machines are inherently motion-centric and Control Techniques “Motion Made Easy^TM” makes servo motion easy.

Key Benefits

• Shorter design times
• Quicker changeovers
• Handling broader material ranges
• Higher throughput
• Improved line integration
• Outstanding safety and quality
• The industry's best pre- and post-sales support

Packaging Industry Case Studies

Typical applications include

• Form / fill / seal machines
• Labelers
• Case packers
• Carton and case erectors
• Baggers
• Bundlers
• Shrink wrappers
• Smart belts
• Indexing tables

Automation Control

• Reduce time to market with “Motion Made Easy^TM” servos and easy HMI programming
• Smaller machine footprint with very compact drives and integrated drive, PLC and motion control
• Easy line integration with onboard Ethernet and options for all major fieldbuses

Drives and Motors

• Reduce machine costs with competitively priced AC general purpose drives
• Faster changeover and throughput with servo drives at stepper drive prices
• Scalable servo motors with matched servo drives make material changeover easy
• Enhanced safety with torque limiting and safe off technology

Motion Components

• Material changeover made easy with broad mechanical motion solutions
• Reduce lead-time and faster changeover with fieldbus enabled valve blocks
• Innovative and flexible material solutions with ultrasonic welding

Control Techniques Motion Control solutions for the packaging industry:

	Digitax HD - 200 V and 400 V Pulse Duty Servo Drive Systems, 1.5 A – 16 A rms Digitax HD is a high dynamic servo drive, matched to Unimotor hd motors for pulse duty applications Learn More
	Epsilon EP - Compact 1.5 Axis Servo Drive, 2.2 - 16.0 A rms Epsilon EP is a compact and easy-to-use servo drive, scalable from a simple amplifier to a completely programmable 1.5-axis motion controller Learn More
	Unimotor hd - Pulse Duty Servo Motor, 6.3 lb-in (0.72 Nm) – 757.6 lb-in (85 Nm) [2257 lb-in (255 Nm) peak] A high dynamic brushless AC servo motor range Learn More

Our General Purpose AC drive solutions for the packaging industry:

	Chassis / IP20 The KBVF and KBDF Series of Adjustable Frequency Drives consist of thirty inverter models rated for 1/8 to 5 horsepower motors Learn More
	NEMA 1 / IP20 & IP50 The KBMA and KBWA Series of Adjustable Frequency Drives consist of four inverter models rated for 1/8 to 1 horsepower motors Learn More
	NEMA 4X / IP65  KBAC and KBDA Series of Adjustable Frequency Drives consist of fourteen inverter models rated for 1/8 to 5 horsepower motors Learn More
	Commander C AC Drives Easy-to-use, Reliable AC Motor Control Up to 200 HP Learn More

Our General Purpose DC drive solutions for the packaging industry

	Chassis / IP20 Standard off-the-shelf DC Drives provide variable speed for DC motors from sub-fractional to 5 horsepower Learn More
	NEMA 1 / IP20 & IP50 Standard off-the-shelf DC Drives provide variable speed for DC motors from sub-fractional to 2 horsepower Learn More
	NEMA 4X / IP65  Standard off-the-shelf DC Drives provide variable speed for DC motors from sub-fractional to 3 horsepower Learn More