Some 150 years ago the first packaging machine was invented. The jobs previously performed by vertical shafts, cam discs, sprocket wheels and cams back then, have long become the work of state-of-the-art high-tech components and robots. Thanks to sophisticated drive, control and automation technologies as well as machine vision modern systems today deliver top performance in addition to high flexibility and precision – a key requirement especially in the food industry that has to follow the trend towards greater choice, faster product changeovers and out-of-home consumption.
