PC-based control brings performance boost, cost reduction

摘要

A leading manufacturer of Vertical Form/ Fill/Seal equipment, Matrix Packaging is a core piece of Pro Mach, Inc.'s Flexible Packaging Group. The firm's new Metis~(™) continuous-motion machine is a significant new-product development suitable for use in factories that package cheese, coffee, powders, snacks, and candy as well as in nonfood applications such as hardware. Automating the Metis is a PC-based controls architecture, including multi-touch display technology. EtherCAT, the industrial Ethernet fieldbus, is used for networking automation system components. Metis is the packaging industry's first vf/f/s pillow-bag bagging machine that operates in either continuous- or intermittent-motion mode.