PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2013

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW 62 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 10/13 www.petpla.net Everything under control! Swiss company Olicorp will present its MCU series, a range of programmable embedded IP67 controllers tai- lored for the PET industry. Connected to the main PLC of the machine, the MCU ensures the real time control and the monitoring of the process. Being waterproof (IP67), the MCU can be installed directly on the machine close to the equipment to control. The MCU series is designed for the needs of, but is not limited to, the PET industry. Each MCU is designed to be quickly operational without any extensive engineering. MCU-Blow is an embedded IP67 programmable con- troller designed to enhance stretch blow process on each station of the machine and reduce the automation costs. It allows the angular position of the wheel to be read, and the stretch blow process to be synchronised with the angular position of the wheel. The device is designed for real time control of the complete stretch blow moulding process and allows online monitoring of the process parameters for each cavity. MCU-Injection is an embedded modular controller for injection machines. It is designed as a compact and ready to plug in solution, for full control of the injection unit (extruder, injection, cylinders, motors), of the clamping unite (closing, mould temperature, cooling robot) and for high speed motion control of the extracting robot. MCU-Thermocouple is a controller for the collection and analysis of the temperature information on machines and equipment. The MCU-Thermocouple is designed in two versions: 16 isolated inputs J type and 16 isolated inputs K type. Both solutions are in IP67 compact waterproof corpus equipped with Profibus DP slave and Bluetooth. Some of the benefits claimed by Olicorp for the MCU are: accuracy of measurement, elimination of intermediate connections. and reduction in cabling costs. www.olicorp.ch Olicorp Hall 12 Booth A51-6 Allrounders Arburg has taken a large, 1650m 2 stand in order to present a range of machinery and the formal launch of new electric Allrounder units. The electric Allrounder 820 A will receive its world premiere at the K Show. It com- pletes the company’s electric Alldrive series by bridging the gap between the 3200 and 5000kN machines. It incor- porates a 4,000kN toggle-type clamping unit and a 2100 size electric injection unit, both of which have been newly developed for this machine. Arburg says that the new toggle size will also be available for the hybrid Hidrive range in future. The stand will also feature an Allrounder 370 E from the Edrive, integrated with a six-axis robotic system and an inline printing system from fpt Robotik into a production cell. An Allrounder 470 A equipped with a 64-cavity mould from Männer will produce high-precision, delicate dosage units in a cycle time of only 2s. A fully- electric cube mould application for juice container closure production will be presented jointly with Foboha. www.arburg.com Arburg GmbH + Co KG Hall 13 Booth A13 Sacmi Hall 13 Booth A63 Caps, containers and preforms The Sacmi stand will show- case the compa- ny’s solutions for the manufacture of caps, preforms and containers and will include presses capable of produc- ing large ‘one-step’ articles, along with others designed to combine the best of hydraulic and full-electric technology. A key exhibit will be the IPS 220 B, an injection preform press that was originally launched in 2012 and includes a control system that allows real-time control of process parameters, which Sacmi says enables greater flexibility in changeo- ver. A very fast cycle time is achievable because of tech- nical solutions such as the machine’s own KERS (kinetic energy recovery system). It can manufacture preforms of up to 190mm and at outputs up to 1,200 preforms/h. Sacmi’s stand will also have an upgraded version of the CCM 48 S, optimised for the innovative COOL+ mould. The version on show at the fair will produce 2,000 caps/ min. The new CHS Lean solution, which can inspect up to 150,000 caps/h allows 360 ° cap control, will also be on display, as will the CBF container manufacturing machine, another product originally launched in 2012. www.sacmi.com