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News Release from: Sig Pack Services | Subject: SIGFS feeding storage system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 May 2004
Packaging feeding storage system is
efficient
A flexible, high capacity, feeding storage system increases productivity in packaging lines, and ensures trouble free operation.
SIG Pack Systems has developed a flexible, high capacity, feeding storage system to increase productivity in packaging lines The new SIGFS (feeding store) ensures trouble free operation and is suitable for a wide variety of products, including those of a delicate nature
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SIGFS carries products gently through its storage system, using a 'first in, first out' principle, without the need for infeed units or transfer points.
The system makes the sub-processes of an automated system, such as filling, feeding, distribution, packaging and cartooning, independent of one another.
These sub-processes, as well as the overall packaging system, can then be optimally loaded and operated.
The simplicity of the system is due to an endless tabletop chain, which is driven at two points.
The drive at the entry to the store is synchronised with the rate of supply, while the other drive at the discharge end is synchronised with the next downstream process.
It works like a rubber band between the two processes.
The SIGFS can be used for products in trays, pillow packs, boxes, bottles and even for unpackaged goods.
It can be easily adapted to meet clients' requirements and has already received a good take up in both the food and pharmaceutical industries.
"This buffering system ensures consistently high packaging productivity," informed Alfred Wipf, product manager of the SIGFS at SIG Pack Systems.
"The flexibility, capacity and simplicity of this product has already generated interest from a diverse range of industries.".
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