One of the biggest challenges for machine builders in today's pharmaceutical and food industries is cleaning and disinfecting equipment that is in close or direct contact with the products. The new ACOPOStrak flexible transport system from B&R fulfils the high hygiene requirements for processing and primary packaging.
To prevent long stops for maintenance and cleaning, dust and mechanical elements such as chains, among others, must be avoided. Apart from impacting product quality, health and safety, such components will affect the performance of the machine if it is not cleaned properly.
New generation of transport systems
Flexible manufacturing systems are needed to respond to consumer trends such as personalised products and packaging. At the same time, these systems must Hygienic process environment to avoid microbial, chemical and physical contamination. A new generation of flexible transport systems is required for the dynamic transport of products across areas and machines with controlled environmental conditions. Such systems must offer a hygienic design and individually controllable shuttles that allow flexible adaptation of product, packaging and labelling. The smooth stainless steel housing with rounded corners of the flexible transport system ACOPOStrak avoids undercuts and protruding screws. This prevents the accumulation of dirt and makes cleaning simple, safe and efficient.
What, when and how desired
Consumers are demanding an increasing variety of customised products - they expect them to be available on demand. The challenge for many CPGs is that they have already optimised the productivity of their machines and equipment to such an extent that any further change is a serious problem. What they urgently need is innovative, multifunctional equipment that can be used for Frequent conversions offer flexibility without compromising production speed.
The highly scalable, decentralised architecture of ACOPOStrak consists of service-friendly stainless steel track segments that can be arranged in any combination of open and closed circuits over a length of more than 100 metres. The unique high-speed diverters guide the shuttles from one track circuit to the next at full production speed, facilitating the splitting and merging of product flows. This opens up completely new possibilities for making production systems more agile and adaptive.
With high-speed diverters, flexible track design and shuttles that can be changed during operation, ACOPOStrak offers exceptional overall system efficiency and maximises the added value of the machines and system investment - the cost-effectiveness of mass production is increased to up to Lot size 1 customised.
[infotext icon]Perfect e-commerce front endThe consumer goods packaging industry has mastered the management of known market requirements. One way to meet the current challenge posed by unknown requirements is to allow consumers to customise their products themselves via a Web configurator to be defined. This gives you Valuable market information, without having to rely on sales alone. In combination with an effective e-commerce front end, ACOPOStrak is the optimal solution for intelligent, personalised production in batch size 1.
B&R Industrie-Elektronik GmbH at ACHEMA 2018: Hall 11.1, Stand A63
