Cracking the code

摘要

Modern automation and control systems are being applied to time-served can seaming systems in the drinks industry as a result of collaboration between equipment manufacturer Ferrum and global control system specialist Rockwell Automation. Ferrum, based at Rupperswil in Switzerland, finds that trends such as the switch to aluminium cans and wider ranges of sizes, along with growing demand for infant formula packed in cans, has coincided with more use of automation, from the US to Asia, and the need to replace seamers that are up to 30 years old. Ferrum's machines seal round, two- and three-piece beverage and food cans made from steel and aluminium on canning lines operating at speeds of up to 2,500 items per minute.