Digital tools & AI
Sacmi, W1243
Sacmi will be highlighting human machine interaction based on new controls, digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI)
Sacmi says that the primary goal of digitally advanced controls is to protect customers’ investment by making it easier for operators to manage machines and plants. Its stand at NPE will present and demonstrate ‘digital inside’ technologies from three perspectives.
Smart Pack 2 includes Sacmi’s latest and most advanced control package and is available from 2024 on its CCM cap presses. Its goal is deep control of everything on the machines from hydraulics to consumption, bringing systems ‘self adjustment’ capabilities and feeding valuable functional information back to process control. New for 2024 is the ‘prediction’ button on the press, which forecasts machine behaviour over time, anticipating production drifts and expediting proactive maintenance.
Smart Care service provides secure, in-Cloud sharing of main operating parameters. This helps to ensure optimal decision making on the line and feeds customers real-time suggestions and assistance from the Sacmi team. Smart Care augments the opportunities offered by Space, the gateway to Sacmi assistant services, which is provided in synergy with the Sacmi USA team. Classy AI is part of the Sacmi Computer Vision systems (CVs) suite. It automatically classifies defects, making it easier to run plants and perform process control.
Sacmi will also be presenting Gilda AI, which it describes as a ‘chatbot-like tool’. It will be playing a lead role on the exhibition stand and visitors will have the opportunity to see live demonstrations. In the event of a machine malfunction or process drift, operators can simply ‘ask Gilda’ to obtain prompt customised AI-powered answers to their queries.
Visitors to the Sacmi stand will have a great opportunity to see a CCM64 cap press and IPS 300 preform press in action. As well as advanced controls and integration with quality control, the latest solutions also offer the prospect of working with fully recycled materials.
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The CCM on the stand can be fed with HDPE from recycled sources, including PCR foodgrade material acquired on the market in accordance with FDA regulations. This has opened up new opportunities for the recycling of HDPE caps and the same is the case for the IPS press; the machine that will be demonstrated at the show has already been sold to a leading American customer who aims to feed it with 100% rPET.
Sacmi will also be showcasing an enhanced solution that takes next towards the new 26/22 mm standard. Its compliance with the new standard is guaranteed, Sacmi says, as it has been working in close collaboration with major international certification bodies, including Cetie, the International Technical Centre for Bottling, headquartered in Paris, France. Sacmi says that the solutions that will be on display at NPE will demonstrate how it is providing customers with close support, helping to identify solutions that best match their product production requirements while factoring in consumption habits for individual segments countries or markets. The company says that it currently offers the market’s largest family of caps for 26/22 mm necks and a wide range of opportunities and choices in tethered caps, as well. The IPS on the stand will be equipped with a 72-cavity MHT mould, set up to produce light preforms.
