System Overview

Drive Concepts of Packaging Machines

Modern machine concepts in the packaging industry are

characterized by the need for high dynamism, flexibility, modularity

and efficiency. Packaging machines were traditionally equipped

with a mechanical vertical shaft, which drove the secondary

motions in the machine, usually with mechanical components with

complicated motion functions. Designing such a machine, flexible

for different products is a highly complex task.  Even minor changes

in the packaging process, particularly in case of a product change,

require major modifications and standstill time.

Packaging machines with electronic vertical shafts permit full

flexibility. Electronic servo drive systems replace cam and coupling

gears and a virtual electronic vertical shaft ensures that the motion

axes are synchronous. Any pulse and angle synchronous

movements are determined by a central control.