Equipment for the bottling sector: precise machining for efficient lines
In the bottling, labelling, and food & beverage sectors, it is often the details that make the difference. Gear wheels, guides and handling components play a fundamental role: they separate, accompany and position the products throughout the process to ensure smoothness, stability and operational continuity, even at high speeds.
These components must be wear-resistant and offer excellent sliding properties and high dimensional accuracy. Correct container positioning, low vibration, fewer misalignments and the efficiency of the entire automated line in general depend on their fabrication quality.
To take a close look at how these components are made, we went to CRM Engineering in the province of Mantua; specifically, P.E. Labellers, a product brand of the US multinational ProMach, which has over 40 years of experience in designing and manufacturing equipment for the bottling, labelling and food & beverage sectors.
Their installed machines include the CMS tracer 300x 5-axis machining center, which is used to fabricate a range of devices, such as gear wheels and guides that, once assembled, become part of automatic rotary unscrambling lines for specific products.
Each part is custom-designed and requires accurate and repeatable machining to ensure constant performance, even in intensive production.
In this context, the CMS technology applied in the tracer 300x ensures full compliance with the dimensional tolerances and finishes typical of the strict standards in the sector. Attention has been paid to cleaning the work area inside the machine. In fact, adopting diversified chip and dust collection and evacuation systems ensures that the worktable is perfectly clean throughout the work cycle, even during long “unsupervised” sessions. Another possible optimization consists of automatically unloading the machined workpieces at the end of the cutting process.
Equipped with a 5-axis bi-rotary head, CMS tracer 300x is perfect for sheet processing. It covers all the standard sizes available on the market, with the best combination of nesting processes and 5-axis machining with the 3+2 formula or continuous interpolation.
These are just some of the reasons CRM Engineering has chosen this technology as a natural solution to replace slow, bulky machinery and maximize the production space occupied by the machine.
In fact, CMS solutions offer the perfect combination of compact form, flexibility, precision and production capacity for the food & beverage, bottling and labelling sectors. It is precisely because of its dedicated equipment and configurations that the tracer 300x provides the operator with user-friendly and effective functions with class-leading minimal set-up times, which maximizes the return on investment.
The machine also comes with the MAESTRO suite, a complete software platform that includes a CAM system integrated into the machine. A native software that is simple, user-friendly and always available, but built into a completely open architecture, capable of receiving post-processed programs from any external CAM (3-axis or 5-axis) in the most common standard formats.
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