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Status Quo

iSH Brochure - 11737 Overcoming the last hurdle: Modularity in the electronics as well?

What wasn’t readily apparent at fi rst now presents the next challenge. Ten, twenty or more servos are not uncommon on a packaging machine today to provide fully automated operation for push button format changes, mul- tiple fi lling and capping heads, collators, continuous material replenishment and more. These are all emerging requirements of packaging operations.

It just makes sense. Servo technology is the cost effective alternative to grinding new cams, extensive changeover downtime, and living with inconsistent quality caused by ‘dialing in’ manual adjustments that are different for every operator. So there’s no going back to the status quo.As a result, electrical cabinets are growing in size. Servo cables are growing in number with two per motor snaking from the electrical cabinet out to each motor. To streamline servo installation and maintainability, the time is right for the third breakthrough in modularity – elec- tronic modularity.