Automate upgrades to improve beverage filling lines

While focusing on machines that can be used for the filling of a wide range of products, improving the machine's ability to operate is the main purpose of Tooheys Distillery's automation upgrade of its entire plant packaging equipment at its Lidcombe plant in northern Sydney in 2002. After using the electronic control system upgrade company's beverage production line from Silverwater's Machine Automation (MAR), the performance and flexibility of the beverage production line have been greatly improved.

First of all, Tooheys believes that fillers and sealers are the main components of the entire beverage filling line. In this project, some high-speed electronic equipments have been installed and all parts are controlled by relays. However, the ability to solve problems has encountered problems. MAR's solution is to record all relevant input and output data to a single processor and provide operation control via PanelView and a sophisticated push-button console.

The Tooheys brewery used the Allen Brodley Controllogix filling line to upgrade the existing PLC production line in order to meet the long-term development goals. Tooheys' Controllogix includes information highway ports and Ethernet ports, primarily as an on-line PLC access. The Controllogix implementation of the testing process was performed through MAR's Ethernet LAN. Silverwater staff worked together to install the PLC on a new control panel and the equipment was thoroughly tested before being shipped to the site for installation. On the other hand, some problems that cannot be confirmed in the production process of filling and capping. In the past, because it was impossible to confirm where something went wrong, it was impossible to confirm what caused the machine to stop working. The clear error recognition system of the PanelView 550 now allows operators to quickly identify and solve any problems in the entire filling production process.

With respect to winemaking, the current bottling production line is flexible and efficient, and must fully meet the requirements of safety standards. MAR's innovative automated bottling line exhibits a strong inverted bottle detection function. (The rapid detection of inverted bottles can eliminate filling and sealing problems at any time. To ensure production at peak production), to detect and remove the functions of the bottles scattered on the production line, the error recognition function (the operator does not need to check the machine trouble during the waste of effective operation time), the controllable function of the high-speed equipment (operator It can automatically adjust the filling speed instead of the manual adjustment of each speed drive), the enhanced speed control function, and the use of automated access control facilities to improve safety. The manager of Packaging Technology Department of Tooheys stated: After the automation upgrade of the entire filling line was completed with the help of MAR, the performance of the production line has been greatly improved, especially in terms of stability and efficiency. The improvement.

Source: Export Goods Packaging