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3. Electronic packaging line management
3.1 General case
In all major installations, the conveyors are controlled by electronic systems that manage everything from the speeds of the various conveyor sections, to the orientation or routing of bottles through flow dividers, to the routing to case packers or shrink-wrappers.
On each 10 or 20 m section, several segments of a few meters are required to regulate the feed speeds of the full bottles.
The accumulators and the different conveyor lanes can be used to regulate production in the event of an incident on one of the machines - the filler or labeler upstream, or the packer and shrink-wrapper downstream.
All machines, conveyors and the entire packaging line are therefore controlled by a fully-integrated...
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Electronic packaging line management
Case packing, cartoning
Regulations
12-91 French law n° 911414 defining the Machinery Directive.
07-92 Decrees implementing this law :
92765 Scope of application,
92766 Marketing and control procedures,
92767 Technical rules.
01-95 All new palletizer-depalletizers sold and installed must comply with these decrees.
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Bibliography
In Engineering Techniques
Standardization
French Standards Association (AFNOR)
- Sécurité des machines d'emballage. Partie 4 : palettiseurs et dépalettiseurs. Indice de classement : H 94-001-4. (remplace : NF H 95-402 : 05-1981 et NF H 95-403 : 12-1982). - NF EN 415-4 - 12-97
- Management de projet. Recommandations pour l'analyse et la modélisation graphique d'actions...
Organizations
Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI)
Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE), Packaging market
Packaging machinery suppliers
(non-exhaustive list)
Conveyors, complete lines
NTS (France)
NTS-LEGENDRE (Belgium)
POSIMAT, SA (Spain)
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