Food Manufacturing

All geared up for wear resistance

Polymer gears from igus: printed, machined and now injection moulded

5th August 2021

KEB servo drives selected for new hybrid mobile crushers

Austrian company Rubble Master is using COMBIVERT F6 servo drives from KEB Automation on its latest hybrid range of mobile crushers. The servo drives were selected due to their compactness, robustness, high efficiency and integrated safety functionality.

26th July 2021

Enabling Laithwaites to reach 98% productivity

CKF has recently designed, installed and commissioned an extensive new case feed and palletising system for Laithwaites wine, an established, thriving ecommerce and retail business based in Gloucester. The new system enabled Laithwaites to handle a 50% increase in demand during 2020 and improve productivity from 65% to a phenomenal 98%.

26th July 2021

Choosing the right conveyor belt for assured food safety

Running a food processing plant is not an easy task, not least because of the complexities of dealing with food safety and hygiene. Here Anna Marcol of conveyor and power transmission belt specialist Habasit, shares insights from a recent webinar delivered jointly by experts from Habasit and NGI, who discussed how hygiene-rated equipment and the right choice of belt type and material, are crucial in achieving food safety.

26th July 2021

Inductive sensors help get the beers in

When a drinks producer needed a method of conducting a final inspection check of cases of bottles after the lid of the corrugated cardboard case had been closed and sealed, it turned to Contrinex. A bottle count is performed by verifying the position of bottle caps through layers of cardboard at the top of each sealed case.

26th July 2021

Measuring long distances with increased accuracy

Laser distance sensors usually measure either time of flight or phase shift. With measurement of the time of flight, a short pulse of light is emitted. The pulse propagation time, ie the time that the light beam needs to travel from the source to a reflector and back again to the source, is then used to determine the distance. This method is fast, but often not precise enough for challenging time measurements.

26th July 2021

Unify the process control network

For many liquid and gas control applications, device integration to the main PLC through a single fieldbus reduces costs and can also be an opportunity to expand control capability. Greg Wainhouse of Bürkert explains how to optimise process control integration.

26th July 2021