Case packer uses a power monitor to minimize energy consumption

摘要

Schneider Packaging has made a side-load case packer since the company was founded in the 1970s. The machine's controls platform has evolved from the days of "hard wiring and pneumatic valves," as Schneider's Terry Zarnowski puts it, to PLCs.rnEventually, a Rockwell controls platform emerged as the one put in place most of the time. It's used, for example, in Schneider's HCP-10 case packer. Rated at about 12 cases/min, this machine has three axes of servo motion all driven by Kinetix 6000 servo drives and MP-Series low-inertia servo motors. The machine's main controller is from Rockwell's CompactLogix series.