Serving up a servo capper

摘要

Closure Systems Intl. (www.csiclosures.com) is a well known maker of capping machines serving a variety of industries. Mechanical cappers that are gear-driven and use a magnetic clutch to transfer torque are still a mainstay at CSI. But for about the past year the firm has also been offering an Intelli-Torque capper that takes advantage of servo technology from Schneider Electric (www.schneider-electric.com). The number of capping stations on these rotary machines can be anywhere from 3 to 40, but a typical number is 15, so for the purposes of this discussion a 15-station capper will be described.