ETHERNET SERVO DRIVES ARE REDEFINING THE SPEED OF FOOD TRAY SEALING, WHERE AN ALL-SERVO MOTION SYSTEM CONTROLLED BY A 100 MBITS/SEC NETWORK CAN SEAL UP TO 200 TRAYS PER MINUTE. Ethernet-compatible servo motor drives are underpinning a breakthrough in the speed and flexibility of food tray sealing. The availability of this new generation of networked motion control technology provided the platform for Ishida to re-think its machine control system architecture and achieve step-change improvements in speed. Instead of the combination of servo and pneumatic actuation axes used on previous machines, Ishida's latest QX-1100 tray sealer employs servo motors throughout, controlled using Baldor's Ethernet-compatible MicroFlex e100 drives. The speed and predictability of movement provided by the servos allows Ishida to dramatically accelerate the throughput for this form of food processing automation, allowing sealing speeds of up to 200 trays per minute, twice as fast as many existing solutions.
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