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Automation for the packaging industry

Gentle and quick, clean and safe, variable and flexible – all typical requirements in the packaging industry. You can often make your packaging tasks even more efficient by using automation solutions from Festo, from individual components to ready-to-install subsystems. We provide you with the support you need, worldwide.

OEE – increasing system availability

High system availability can be planned. The key indicators for overall equipment effectiveness are availability, performance and quality. These examples show how you can reduce downtimes and increase cycle rates while maintaining top quality.

OEE – Increasing system efficiency (PDF)

One standard for all functions: Festo Motion Terminal VTEM

Digitised pneumatics for radically optimised usage: our highly functional Motion Terminal VTEM with its Motion Apps and new valve technology replaces over 50 individual components and even entire systems – via tablet and smartphone.

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Packaging machines: solutions for palletising with ready-to-install handling systems

There is a right and suitable solution for every palletising job thanks to matching handling axes with gripper technology, including control cabinet and programming. You assemble the handling system using standard components, including safety functions, display and operating units. It's quick and easy with our Handling Guide Online.

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Speed up packaging using electric drives from Festo!

The industrial upgrading of the packaging industry not only requires more automation, but also higher requirements for production flexibility and process accuracy. Festo VTEM can accurately feed materials and achieve flexible production through the innovative function of APPs, which control valves. The flexible combination with electric drive products can further speed up packaging; The all-round integration of EPCE electric cylinders increases the security and intelligence of stacking.

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Bosch Packaging Festo Motion Terminal

In practice

Exactly the right dose

Coffee, sugar, pharmaceuticals—nowadays, virtually everything is packed in small, low-cost sachets. The new, flexible flat pouch machine Sigpack VPF from Bosch Packaging Technology ensures correct packaging and a precise mixing ratio. The world's first freely scalable sachet machine uses the new flexibility provided by the digital pneumatics of the Festo Motion Terminal.

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Transnova Ruf packaging machine

In practice

Picking, packing, and palletizing

“Our design-to-order concept sets us apart from the majority of packaging machine manufacturers,” says Michael Ruf, deputy general manager of Transnova Ruf. In addition to cutting-edge robotic and control technology, the company is using pneumatic automation technology from Festo, and especially proportional technology on valve manifolds.

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Cama side loader CL

In practice

Make some room!

With the “Breakthrough Generation of Machines” from Italian packaging machine manufacturer Cama, manufacturers of consumer packaged goods and pharmaceuticals are experiencing a completely new feeling of space in their factories.The new machines from Cama take up one third less space—thanks to the valve manifold concept CPX/MPA.

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ECONO-PAK Multi-Carrier-System

In practice

Carefully packaged

The servo-controlled horizontal cartoner HK-S from ECONO-PAK gently and efficiently places scratch-sensitive tubes of shoe polish into cardboard boxes. The freely configurable and flexible Multi-Carrier-System (MCS) from Festo perfectly synchronizes the conveyors for the product and the cardboard box and ensures reliable packaging with high throughput.

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