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Packaging

Independent Cart Technology Underpins

Integrated Packaging Concept

Advanced packaging solution integrates seamlessly into modern component fabrication line thanks to
innovative in-machine and between-machine transportation technology

ama Group prides itself on the electrical component fabrication
way it designs, develops and line at one of the world’s largest
Cdeploys new technologies, automation vendors, Rockwell
in order to bring heightened Automation.
integration, throughput, accuracy
and quality levels to the packaging In addition to proving the integration
industry. capabilities of the control solution,
Cama had to demonstrate that its

Its machines, which see action all machine would fit seamlessly into
over the globe in a huge variety of the rest of the line, the majority of
packaging applications, are designed which had been developed and built
to offer the perfect blend of modular, by US company Calvary Robotics, as possible, so that small batches of
accessible and hygienic mechanical a specialist in the design and build the various contactor models can
frameworks, coupled to the very of automated assembly, test and be fabricated – to order in a just-
latest technology the automation material-handling systems. in- time fashion – as effi ciently
world has to offer; including as possible, with minimum re-
advanced and tightly integrated in- According to Giovanni Panzeri, engineering and downtime. As a
house-developed robotic pick-and- Automation Project Leader at result, our packaging solution had
place solutions. Cama: “The line with which we to deliver a commensurate level of
were integrating is for the assembly flexibility, to adapt and change to the
In a recent project, Cama’s high- of a wide range of contactors, the various product throughputs.”
tech pedigree was really put to model type of which vary depending
the test, when it was tasked with on the contact confi guration, the Cama and Rockwell Automation
designing and integrating one of voltage and the applicable local had already worked very closely

its Breakthrough Generation (BTG) certifications, such as CE and UL. before on a number of industry-
CL 175 cartoning machines into an The line is designed to be as flexible leading packaging machines, so

ROCKWELL
AUTOMATION’S
CHOICE OF CAMA FOR
THIS APPLICATION IS
TESTAMENT TO THE
STRENGTH OF THEIR
MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP
AND REINFORCES
THE CAPABILITIES OF
MODERN INTEGRATED
CONTROL SOLUTIONS.

Food Marketing & Technology 28 April 2021