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he efficiency of a company's bottling and packaging line is an essential part of the production process to improve its competitiveness in the food & beverage sector. This is why SMI's research and development projects of the past two years have focused on innovative ideas in the design and production of stretch-blow moulding, filling, packaging, palletizing and handling machines: concepts implemented by the new ERGON brand. All the new installations of the ERGON series feature compact, ergonomic and functional structures, simplifying the management, cleaning and maintenance of the machine, ensuring...

SECTOR: FOOD AMY'S KITCHEN INC. Petaluma, California, USA www.amys.com SK 800 T Packer APS 3090 P - APS 1550 P Palletizers Turntable-based wrapper and conveyors

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Good ideas comefrom the dinner table! As often happens, the best ideas are born at the table. That is exactly where an idea came up during a business meeting between SMI and the customer: that of creating a compact, multifunctional line whose heart is SMI's new pal/depal. From its very first meeting with Amy's Kitchen Inc. SMI felt and shared the pride of those who make a quality product, are aware of it and willing to tackle the issues on how to package it at best. This is how Amy's Project came to life. DISCUSSING REQUIREMENTS, PROBLEMS AND IDEAS AND COMING UP WITH A SOLUTION TOGETHER WITH...

An idea, a project, four operating modes depalletizing to ensure a better final quality of the product. How were we going to put together all these requirements and reduce the number of machines and manual operations? Sketch after sketch… the idea began to materialize, and at some point an OK appeared on an almost incomprehensible drawing…

FROM THE IDEA TO THE PROJECT he production department is located upstream of the packaging line and comprises the cooking room, which they call the kitchen, and the can filling/ seaming system. Amy’s Kitchen has very high quality standards: in fact, if the cooking process stops for even just a few seconds, they discard the entire product batch being processed (approximately 45 minutes of production). Therefore, it goes without saying that an unexpected stop of the downstream packaging line will lead to a considerable waste of product and money for the customer. • Why have a great number of belts...

MICHAEL MOODY, AMY'S SENIOR PLANT ENGINEER (ON THE LEFT) WITH ABEL SUAREZ, AMY'S CANNING MANAGER OREGON (IN THE MIDDLE) AND COREY PARRY, SALES AREA MANAGER OF SMI USA (ON THE RIGHT) AT AMY'S FACILITY IN MEDFORD, OREGON. The line end system that SMI installed at Amy's facility (which includes the APS 3090 P and APS 1550 automatic palletizers, the SK 800 T shrinkwrapper and the conveyors), features four different operating modes: 1. Non-labeled cans buffer mode 2. Labeled cans storage mode 3. Non-labeled cans storage mode 4. Depalletizing mode veloutf^" toniateSj solijw

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AMY'S KITCHEN GREAT KITCHEN Amy's Kitchen was founded in 1987, the year Amy was born, daughter of Rachel and Andy Berliner and founders of this important organic food company. Thanks to Andy and Rachel's meticulous teamwork, they keep coming up with new ideas year a_fter year, submitting them to Amy's Kitchen cooks. They never get tired of trying or retrying new recipes, until ideas turn into new products that are placed on the market, only after extensive quality testing. Thanks to Rachel's attentive and sensitive palate, she is the company's official taster. Extreme product care, attention...

mAHH I NON-LABELED CANS BUFFER MODETHE APS 3090 P PALLETIZER WORKS AS A PALLETIZING + PALLET WRAPPING SYSTEM FOR FINISHED PRODUCT WITH CORNER-INSERTERS, WHEREAS THE APS 1550 P PALLETIZER WORKS AS A BUFFER FOR NON-LABELED CANS. APS 1 SbO PAL & DEPAL SYSTEM APS 3090 - PAllfcT WRAPPING SYSTEM . CORNER-BOARD APPLICATOR Product flow during normal operation Product flow in the event the downstream line stops: the APS 1550 P works in palletizing mode by accumulating product and allowing the kitchen not to slop. This is the main operating mode of Amy’s production line. The point on the drawing where...

of the palletizing system is equipped with a device that applies some cardboard corners before wrapping the stretch film. These corners are applied both to strengthen the pallet and make it suitable also for intercontinental transport. If a stop occurs downstream of the kitchen while the system works in mode 1, the product will be diverted to the buffer system. As highlighted in red in the layout, a pneumatically operated guide diverts the cans that were just placed on the chained belts and places them on a belt (point 3) where they are naturally distributed to form a layer. This is when the...

2. LABELED CANS STORAGE MODE THE APS 1550 P PALLETIZER WORKS AS A BUFFER FOR LABELED CANS Product flow during labeled cans storage mode Product flow in the event the downstream line stops: the APS 1550 P works in palletizing mode by accumulating product and allowing the kitchen not to stop hen this operating mode is selected, the APS 3090 P palletizer does not work, whereas the APS 1550 P model works as labeled cans palletizer. This operating mode allows the customer to increase stock availability of labeled products in order to package them in film or tray later on. The green path on the drawing...