Packaging Frozen Dinners on a Cartoner
Application: Various food cartoner applications
Challenges: Multiple applications in one machine
Solution: Banner lighting, safety, indication and sensing products
Benefits: One manufacturer to solve many solutions
Challenge
A cartoning machine, also frequently referred to as a cartoner, is a packaging machine that forms various types of cartons, including closed, folded, side seamed and sealed cartons. In addition to forming the carton, many cartoning machines incorporate product loading options.
Banner products provide simple solutions for cartoners from beginning to end. In this example, the horizontal cartoner machine forms the carton, fills empty cartons with frozen dinners and then closes the carton on either end. This part of the packaging process requires reliable sensing and safety solutions to ensure a smooth-running process.
Solution
WLS28 Work Light Strips: Bright, long-lasting LED light strips provide optimal visibility inside the cartoner for operator access and easily fit on the machine without obscuring access
Safety Hinge Switches: Stainless steel, load-bearing safety hinge switches support the cartoner’s machine door and will shut down the machine if the doors are opened, and minimize the risk of intentional defeat
TL50 Tower Light: The TL50 Tower Light is extremely bright and provides highly visible indication from long ranges to display machine status with clear on/off states
WORLD-BEAM QS30 Adjustable-Field Sensor: Banner’s advanced QS30 has enhanced background suppression to detect a frozen dinner product and will signal “no product, no carton” if the bucket is empty
LX Series Part-Sensing Light Screen: The LX Series Light Screen detects the leading edge of the frozen dinner and triggers the conveyor to speed up or slow down so that each dinner enters the bucket on the cartoner correctly
iVu BCR: Banner’s iVu BCR bar code reading scanner ensures the frozen dinner is loaded into the correct carton to prevent packaging errors
WORLD-BEAM QS18 Laser Diffuse Sensor: The QS18LD laser sensor scans across the top of the package to see if any flaps are open
WORLD-BEAM QS18 Fixed Field Sensor: A QS18FF50 fixed-field sensor monitors the fill level of the cart on magazine, and signals the operators to refill the magazine
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The LX Part-Sensing Array provides wide-area detection used for sensing small parts on conveyors, leading-edge detection, and part ejection verification.
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The LX Part-Sensing Array provides wide-area detection used for sensing small parts on conveyors, leading-edge detection, and part ejection verification.
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