EGL
Homecare are Europe's largest manufacturer of disposable
cleaning clothes, sponges, and cleaning pads. They have a range of
flowrap machines of various ages from different suppliers which are
maintained by their own staff. They have adopted a policy
of upgrading them one at a time to full midasmotion multi-axis servo
control using a full kit of parts from us. The kits include
everything they need, including an assembled and tested electrical
panel
with a simple row of terminals to wire in the various switches, sensors
and guard safety devices that are positioned around the machine. The
motors and touch display are all pre-wired making an almost 'plug and
play' conversion!
All functions,
including temperature control, are integrated into the touch
screen. The electrical panel fits within the existing cabinets of the
machines - no
easy design task with some of the physical restrictions of early
Redpack and Autowrapper machines! This approach means that all their
machines have common internal components, a common user interface,
and the operators are inherently familiar with every flowrapper within
their large facility. However, the biggest benefit
to them is the increase in efficiency from features such as
'no product no bag', 'misplaced product' and rapid, accurate and
consistent product change over. One machine alone regularly changes between
over one hundred different products, all of which are stored in the
internal memory for almost instant recall.
Maintenance is now much improved too - externally they keep the same
familiar rugged mechanicals but internally they have an almost zero
maintenance drive system.
