Packaging machinery
• Automation increase production in a cost-effective manner.
Ways to increase production:
• Buying state of the art equipment
• Retrofit, refurbish or rebuilding existing equipment
• Buying refurbish equipment
• Hire a contract packager
Automation
• Factors influencing companies to automate?
Availability of in-plant equipment
Market demand for the product
T ime frame in which the product must be produced
Production volume
Quality and safety standards
Equipment technology
NEW PRODUCTION LINE
Manufacturers of packaging machineries are relatively small
and most of them are family owned.
In today ’s situation packaging machines are a must if you have a
manufacturing facility.
ANSI/PMMI B155.1-2011 Safety standard
PACKAGING DESIGN and MACHINABILITY
Packaging design process tends to focus on marketing,
containment and protective values.
Machinery ’s role is to bring together the product and the
package.
PACKAGING DESIGN and MACHINABILITY
Terminologies
Packaging line – a group of integrated special-purpose
machine that combine product and package inputs and
produce a product.
Input – Specific product and package required for package
assembly.
Design speed – theoretical capacity under perfect running
conditions.
Capacity – upper sustainable limit of quality packages
passing a point just above warehousing.
Run Speed – Instantaneous operating rate at a point in
time.
Output – The exact quantity of quality product passing a
point just before warehouse or shipping in a given time.
Efficiency – Ratio of output over input.
BPM / CPM – Bottles per minute / Containers per minute
BUFFER – Generally used to isolate the least efficient
station on the line.
Changeover - a change from one system or situation to
another.
Constant Level F illing – a term used for most liquid
product. Accurate volume is not as important as keeping a
visually constant fill level.
Level filling can be achieved by gravity, vacuum, pressure
or combination of pressure and vacuum.
Top F illing is done by using the filling tube into the
container ’s neck.
Bottom filling on the other hand is inserting the filling
tube down to the container bottom and allows recede
gradually upward as container fills.
Metering Pump - Used as displacement pump or constant
output impellers to measure a present amount of product.
SYSTEMS USED IN INDUSTRY
STRAIGHT LINE
Straight line machines usually index a production into an
operational station and then hold it there until the operation is
completed.
ROTARY LINE
Rotary line machines usually index a production into an
operational station while filling / capping continuously rotating
until the operation is completed.
Key factors in selecting a filling system:
Project Scope
Product Division (WET / DRY)
Packaging Material
PRODUCT DIVISION DIFFERENCE
PACKAGING MATERIAL CLASSIFICATION
RI G I D
SEMI-RIGID
FLEXIBLE
FILLING SYSTEM
Liquid F illing:
Types of F iller
• Vacuum Filler – consisting of both the vacuum line and the
filling line.
• Piston Filler – consists of a cylinder fitted with a plunger and
a valve.
• Diaphragm Filler – used to fill premeasured volume of fluid
rather than fill level.
TYPES OF FILLING:
• Vacuum fill system are putting free-flowing liquid into a glass
container. Fast, flexible and relatively low cost but limited to
rigid containers only.
• Gravity Fill System slower than vacuum filling and primarily
used for some foaming products.
• Pressure Filling similar to gravity but uses a pump to provide
the force to move the product.
