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Company News

Ebm-Papst wants to sell industrial drive technology to Siemens
The Ebm-Papst Group has announced that it will sell its Industrial Drive Technology (IDT) division to Siemens AG. Both sides have signed a corresponding agreement.
Jumo's new Sensilo plant construction is progressing
Jumo is building a factory in the technology park for the production of temperature and pressure sensors with a production area of ​​around 13 m². At around 000 million euros, the new building is the largest investment in the company's history.
3DExperience Word 2024 in Dallas
At 3DExperience World 2024 in February in Dallas, Texas, Dassault Systèmes celebrated the event's 25th anniversary. The annual user meeting supports the global community in the development of future-proof products and processes.
Michael Koch GmbH moves into a new workshop
There is now more space available in Michael Koch's “Factory” for the assembly of customer- and machine-specific safe braking resistors. The new, modern hall was recently “taken by storm” by the employees.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for profit-making
Elon Musk files a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of breach of contract because the company, which was originally designed as a nonprofit, is now operating for profit.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Industry news for your design and development from the specialist areas

switch cabinet

switch cabinet

On to the intelligent drive train for predictive maintenance

The Roba-brake-checker module or the torque-measuring shaft coupling from Mayr ensure intelligent safety in smart production.

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plastics

plastics

The first 100 Igus bikes hit the streets

The first 100 Igus Urban Bikes hit the streets and an in-house production facility with a capacity of 10.000 bicycles is set up in Cologne.

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Couplings

Couplings

Torque measuring shaft coupling

The smart steel multi-plate coupling Roba-drive-checker from Mayr can do more than just transmit torque and compensate for shaft misalignment.

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Robotic

Robotic

Programming robots for cable handling

As an exhibitor in the Application Park at the Hannover Messe, Artiminds Robotics is presenting a cable handling application for precise cable harness assembly.

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INDUSTRY SPECIALS

Industry news for your design and development from the branches

food technology

food technology

Lubrication and sealing-optimized linear guide

Schaeffler presents linear guides for food technology with optimized seals, wipers and long-term lubrication units.

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Mobile Machinery

Mobile Machinery

Flexible, customizable gateway for agricultural technology

IFM Electronic is presenting the Isobus Gateway at the Hannover Messe, which is designed for agricultural equipment and can be specifically adapted.

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Energy Technology

Energy Technology

All Electric Society – vision of the future of connectivity

At the Hannover Messe Preview, Harting gives an outlook on the Hannover Messe and draws the future picture of an “All Electric Society”.

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Inverter

Inverter

Certified servo controller with Profisafe interface

At Logimat, Wittenstein is presenting a safety-certified servo controller with a Profisafe interface and integrated safety card for AGVs.

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EXHIBITION SPECIALS

Industry fair news

Hannover Messe promotes energy for sustainable industry
As a networked industrial ecosystem, the exhibitors demonstrate how climate neutrality can be achieved through the use of electrification, digitalization and automation under the guiding theme of Energizing a sustainable Industry.
Control Fair 2024 | The industry is already looking forward to Stuttgart
Control 2024, the important international trade fair for quality assurance, will take place from April 23rd to 26th in Stuttgart. The trade fair places a particular focus on automation and digitalization.
SPS Nuremberg: Now in 16 halls!
The SPS – Smart Production Solutions from November 14th to 16.11th. 2023 will see significant growth in the trade fair compared to the previous year and is on the way to pre-Corona levels.

viscotec20619cover story

Ready-made sauces are practical. But also a challenge for the bottlers and their machines in the food technology, In addition to bottling, mixing the many ingredients in the production process also plays a key role. The possibilities and variations are almost unlimited. Dosed, mixed and bottled in a project of Viscotec various ingredients with different viscosities or lumpy materials.

These can be, for example, liquid sauces and spice mixtures with mushrooms, onion pieces, cucumber slices or candied fruits for catering companies. The filling quantity varies between 125 ml and 500 ml. Thanks to the proven technology, pieces up to a size of 25 mm can be filled.

viscotec10619In order to make the high-quality products available to the end user in high quality and without damage, a gentle filling technology is required. A special product displacement process, which modern packaging machine manufacturers take advantage of, enables sensitive products to be packed in tubular bags with little air. Due to the continuous operation of the vertical forming, filling and closing machines, a continuous supply of packaging material can be combined with endless or continuously metering filling operations.

Advantage of continuously operating machines

A low reject rate is just as important as high throughput times and continuous performance. Not only for manufacturers who want to increase their productivity through maximum utilization of their packaging lines. Particular attention is paid to the process of bag filling. In order to achieve a high production frequency, the individual process steps must be concatenated as short and fluidly as possible.


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A precise and elaborate fine-tuning of the individual components is absolutely necessary for this. Especially with smaller packaging sizes such as 10 ml, the interruptions that are necessary for the tube feed and the sealing of the tube take up valuable cycle time. Here you can clearly see the advantage of continuous flow wrapper machines: Compared to intermittent machines, the filling process and the sealing process can not be switched one after the other, but at the same time.

Continuous filling with endless piston technology

viscotec30619The dosing pumps with eccentric screw technology from Viscotec are perfectly tailored to this continuous mode of operation. With the endless piston technology from the dosing technology specialist, the products belong to the group of rotating displacement pumps. The way it works is comparable to an endless piston that conveys the product from the suction side to the pressure side and thereby builds up a pressure difference. The core of every application is a volumetrically conveying metering pump. The interaction of an eccentrically moving rotor and stator results in a delivery and metering characteristic that corresponds to that of an endlessly moving piston.

This endless piston principle is particularly suitable for the conveying and filling of abrasive and solids-laden, ie lumpy media. A key benefit of this technology lies in the resulting delivery chamber, whose volume remains absolutely constant during the course of the movement. This feature makes it possible to fill a wide range of sauces - high-precision, absolutely repeatable and gentle. From smooth sauces to lumpy component sauces, everything is just as much part of it as from small sample packs with 5 ml to large packs with several liters.

Carefully fill without damaging dosing materials

viscotec40619The solids are conveyed particularly gently in their carrier medium through the chambers between rotor (stainless steel) and stator (elastomer). The shape, color and consistency of the solids are not affected. A uniform particle distribution is guaranteed and the desired product properties are completely preserved. Even large pieces up to a size of 25 mm with excellent particle integrity can be dosed with a repeat accuracy of over 99%.

For precise, low-volume filling of viscous, abrasive or solids-laden products such as the hot chilli sauce, conventional filling technologies such as piston or peristaltic pumps reach their limits. For these types of pumps, solids-containing or abrasive products are particularly critical: Often, mechanical damage to the moving parts occurs here.

Especially for these applications, filling pumps in the endless piston principle are very well suited. Advantages of this technology include, for example, a variable and, if required, customer-specific material selection of the dosing components, the particularly low-shear conveyance and a laminar flow within the rotor-stator design.

Dispenser in Hygienic Design

Liquid and pasty products place very high demands on hygiene in the packaging process. Due to their special design, the dosing pumps of the supplier meet all requirements. The pump housing designed in accordance with the EHEDG guidelines is dead-space optimized to avoid any product deposits. From a design point of view, attention was paid to easy and quick disassembly. This facilitates not only automatic cleaning but also manual cleaning after disassembly. To serve the high quality and hygiene regulations of the customers.

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