Cama Group, a world leader in the design, supply and evolution of end-of-line secondary and tertiary packaging technologies showcased its highly agile multi-industry, multi-format packaging machine capabilities at this year’s Anuga FoodTec event in Cologne.
An IF296 monoblock packing machine was on show, custom-built for a major European confectionery company. The monoblock machine, which consists of a tray-forming unit and a loading unit, is one of a series given to the customer in response to continuous repeat orders.
Exhibiting all the design cues, impressive performance characteristics and industry-leading reliability of Cama’s Breakthrough Generation (BTG) technology, the monoblock concept combines the very latest digital, servo and robotic technologies in a reduced-footprint machine that is capable of handling multiple packaging recipes.
Designed to deliver the best possible uptime, capable of further evolutions
In operation, the loading unit receives cartons coming from two independent upstream Cama cartoners. Two robots – designed and developed in-house by Cama to cater for the precise needs of packaging applications – are used to phase and prepare the cartons collations, which are then picked and placed into the trays in a wide variety of pre-determined arrays, depending on batch-based recipes. Machine throughput is 360 cartons/minute.
Designed to deliver the best possible uptime, operational equipment effectiveness (OEE), and total cost of ownership (TCO), the modular design of Cama’s monoblock solutions is capable of further evolution as the operator’s needs change, so investment value is always maximised.
Supporting and delivering even greater flexibility and agility is the integrated AR functionality. This gives operators more intimate, intuitive and unrestricted insights into the machine’s internals, enabling and supporting far more effective and efficient training, operation, batch changeover, maintenance and spares identification & ordering.
