EP1695913A2 - (Cigarette) production and packing unit and method and device for control thereof. - Google Patents

Abstract

The production and packaging line has a control device for the production and packaging units provided with a memory (63) holding different sets (61,62) of parameters corresponding to different manufactured product types, with selection of a parameter set dependent on the type of product to be manufactured, used for setting up the production and packaging line. Each parameter set contains a material identification (64) for comparison with an actual material identification and setting values compared with actual values provided by operating data detection (67). An independent claim for a control method for a production and packaging line is also included.

Description

The invention relates to a method for controlling a manufacturing and Verpackungsungsanlaga - line - each with adjustable organs having manufacturing units such as in particular (cigarette) manufacturing machine (maker), packaging machine (packer), if necessary film wrapping machine, if necessary packer (rod packer) and possibly Carton packer (cartoner) for producing and, in particular, shipping-ready packaging of products - cigarettes and cigarette packaging - from starting materials, in particular blanks such as paper or cardboard blanks, foil and the like.

Furthermore, the invention relates to a production and packaging system - line - with a control device and each having adjustable organs manufacturing units, as mentioned above, for the manufacture and in particular ready for dispatch packaging of first products - cigarettes and cigarette packaging - a first kind and then of products of a second Each type of starting materials such as in particular blanks such as paper or cardboard blanks, foil and the like.

From DE 199 14 297 a generic method and a corresponding device is known.

The invention has for its object to improve the manufacturing and packaging system and the method for controlling such a system.

The object is achieved by a production and packaging system with the features of claim 1.

A manufacturing and packaging plant - hereinafter collectively referred to as "line" - is equipped in a particular embodiment with a control device and each having adjustable organs manufacturing units such as in particular (cigarette) manufacturing machine (maker), packaging machine (packer), if necessary, film wrapping machine, if necessary packer (rod packer) and possibly case packer (cartoner) for the manufacture and in particular ready for dispatch packaging of first products such as cigarettes and cigarette packaging a first kind and then of products of a second kind each from starting materials such as in particular blanks such as paper or cardboard blanks, foil and and the like, wherein a first set of parameters associated with products of the first type and a second set of parameters associated with products of the second type are selectively stored in a memory of the control device and upon selection of a parameter rsatzes the or each production unit by the control device based on the selected parameters a manipulated variable for adjusting the or each adjustable organ can be transmitted. As an adjustable organ each acted upon by a manipulated variable component of a functional unit is called. A component which can be influenced in a relative position by a positionally correcting variable is likewise an adjustable element, such as a heater which can be influenced by a desired temperature, or an optical sensor which can be influenced by a threshold value for specifying a response threshold.

Furthermore, the object is achieved by a corresponding method having the features specified in claim 6 and by a bobbin for holding raw material with the features of claim 4.

The invention is based on the recognition that, when changing from a product of a first type to a product of a second type, on the one hand unnecessarily much time elapses, because complex adjustments have to be made to individual or all production units, to provide suitable starting material or present starting material the suitability for use for a second type product is to be checked, and on the other hand, after the change to a considerable extent, defective productions occur until Finally, the operator in the operation of the line has set all production units correctly on the product to be manufactured. Therefore, a parameter set is provided for each product. For switching products of a first type to products of a second type, the corresponding parameter set is selected, for example, at an operator station with input and output functionality such as a screen and keyboard. On the basis of the selected parameters is then carried out automatically a suitable adjustment of the or each adjustable organ of the or each production unit and / or a review or provision of the starting material or starting material.

The advantage of the invention is that after this adjustment and / or the checking or provision of starting material, the production and in particular ready-to-ship packaging of the second type product can start immediately, so that downtimes are reduced. Furthermore, the individual production units are optimally adjusted to the product of the second type, so that possible production errors are prevented. Advantageous developments of the line, the method and the control device are the subject matter of each subordinate claims.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the drawing.

FIG 1

eine Fertigungs- und Verpackungsanlage für Zigaretten im schematischen Grundriss,

FIG 2

eine Ansicht eines Packers,

FIG 3

Zuschnitte,

FIG 4

eine Bobine mit an unterschiedlichen Positionen vorgesehenen Transpondern und zugeordneten Lesern,

FIG 5

eine Ansicht einer Folioneinschlagmaschine,

FIG 6

einen zentralen Bereich der Folieneinschlagmaschine,

FIG 7

als Detail der Folieneinschlagmaschine einen Banderolenapparat,

FIG 8

Zigarettenpackungen mit aufliegenden Banderolen,

FIG 9a, 9b

eine schematische Darstellung der bei einem Wechsel von einem Produkt einer ersten Art zu einem Produkt einer zweiten Art verwendeten Daten, deren untereinander bestehende Zusammenhänge und deren Verwendung zur Justierung justierbarer Organe und

FIG 10

einen produktartbezogenen Parametersatz.

Show in it

FIG. 1

a manufacturing and packaging plant for cigarettes in a schematic plan view,

FIG. 2

a view of a packer,

FIG. 3

blanks,

FIG. 4

a reel with transponders and associated readers provided at different positions,

FIG. 5

a view of a Folioneinschlagmaschine,

FIG. 6

a central area of the film wrapping machine,

FIG. 7

as a detail of the film wrapping machine a banding apparatus,

FIG. 8

Cigarette packs with overlaid banderoles,

9a, 9b

a schematic representation of the data used in a change from a product of a first type to a product of a second type, their interconnected relationships and their use for adjusting adjustable organs and

FIG. 10

a product type-related parameter set.

The embodiment shown in the drawings relates to a manufacturing and packaging plant for cigarettes, that is a so-called line. This comprises production units, namely, for example, a cigarette maker, namely a maker 10, a subsequent packaging machine, ie a packer 11, a subsequent film wrapping machine 12, a packaging machine for producing packages of several cigarette packs 48, ie a packer 13 and a cartoner 14, packaging packages, ie cigarette rods, into a shipping carton. The cigarettes produced by the maker 10 are conveyed by a cigarette conveyor 15 with an associated cigarette storage 16 to the packer 11, e.g. a hinge-lid packer for making folding boxes, fed. The packer 11 is assigned a blank storage 17, ie a device for receiving a larger stock of prefabricated blanks for the folding box, which has conveying elements for feeding blank stacks to the packer 11. The (cigarette) packs 48 produced by the packer 11 are fed to the film wrapping machine 12 via a pack conveyor 18. This has the task of enveloping the cigarette packs 48 in an outer foil or plastic blank. From the finished cigarette packs 48 pack groups are formed, which are provided in the region of the rod packer 13 with a container wrapping and thus give a cigarette rod of usually ten cigarette packs 48. These cigarette rods are fed to the cartoner 14 by a rod conveyor 19. This passes finished shipping boxes 20 with a plurality of cigarette rods to a discharge conveyor 21. In the area of the pack conveyor 18 between packer 11 and film wrapping machine 12 is a pack store 22 for receiving a larger number of cigarette packs 48 (without outer wrapper).

The production units described must be supplied with material. The maker 10 is to be supplied with tobacco in sufficient quantity, as well as cigarette paper in the form of wound webs, namely bobbins. Furthermore, the maker 10 is also supplied in the form of bobbins wound filter cake so that the manufactured cigarettes can be supplied in the field of a filter attachment machine 23 with the appropriate material. The other production units packaging material is also delivered in wound webs, so as bobbins. For the production of a collar which is customary with cigarette packs 48 of the folding box type, this also applies to an inner wrapper, a so-called inner liner of the cigarette group and to the outer wrapper made of film or cellophane. For all material, a central bearing 24 is provided, in which the bobbins 25 of the different materials, for example Pallets are stored. A suitable conveyor device, for example a common material conveyor 26, is movable along a conveyor track 27 between the bearing 24 and the individual production units for the delivery of the reel-bed material as required. In the example shown, the bearing 24 may be constructed such that filter starting paper 28, collar material 29, innerliner material 30, film material 31 and cigarette paper 32 are positioned in the region of the conveyor track 27 for receipt by the material conveyor 26, respectively in favorable relative position to the associated one manufacturing unit.

The production process of the cigarettes until the production of the finished cigarette boxes filled with shipping boxes 20 is controlled by a control device 33, which with each manufacturing unit, especially with one of each or each manufacturing unit locally associated machine control 35, for example via a bus, in particular a field bus 34th or a local area network, in particular a PC network, is communicatively connected. Via the fieldbus 34, the control device 33 exchanges data with one or each production unit and transmits, e.g. Manipulated variables to the respective production unit or receives production-related data. The control device 33 is e.g. a process computer or a central processing unit of a programmable logic controller. In a memory (not shown) of the control device 33, codes for all materials used in the manufacture and packaging of the cigarettes are stored in a suitable data structure. Likewise, an allocation of a material to at least one production unit based on the code is stored in this memory.

2 shows a view of the packer 11 (cf., view 11 in FIG. The packer 11 processes by folding and gluing blanks 37, 38 as paper or cardboard blanks into cigarette packs. In addition, the packer 11 processed on reels 25 vorhaltene starting materials such as paper or board webs. A first and a second blank 37, 38 made of (thin) cardboard for the production of a cigarette box is shown in FIG. Each blank is characterized by characteristic cut (thick lines) and folded edges (thin lines). For fixing a folded blank 37, 38 as well as for fixing a so-called inner or foil block, ie the embossed or sheathed cigarette block and a collar glue points 39 are provided. The totality of all glue spots 39 is referred to as a glue pattern. Depending on the type of cigarette may be different cigarette packs for their inclusion into consideration. The cigarette boxes differ in the nature of the underlying blank 37, 38 and in each applied glue pattern. First and second cut 37, 38 differ by a long inner cover flap 40 and a short inner cover flap 41 and with respect to the glue pattern in the region of the respective inner cover flap 40,41.

For folding a respective blank 37, 38, the packer 11 (FIG. 1) has adjustable organs (not shown in detail), such as e.g. Folding members known per se, which are appropriately adjusted depending on the blank 37, 38 to be processed. In addition, the packer 11 also not shown in detail, known per se glue nozzles for applying the glue points 39 on the respective blank 37, 38. Also, the or each glue nozzle is an adjustable organ, the adjustment being e.g. in a relative movement of individual glue nozzles to achieve a predetermined glue point 39 or in an activation or deactivation of individual glue nozzles in a combined in the manner of a matrix plurality of glue nozzles.

FIG. 4 shows, in a sectional view along the section line IV-IV (FIG. 2), the reel 25 and a part of the housing of the packer 11. The reel 25 is arranged on a plate 43 rotatably mounted by means of an axle 42 with a central pin 44. The bobbin 25 contains in its interior a bobbin core 45 around which the respective starting material is wound. On the reel 25, a transponder 46 is provided for identifying the respective starting material on the basis of a material identifier stored therein. The transponder 46 cooperates with a reader 47. The transponder 46 is arranged, for example, on or in one foot of the bobbin core 45 and interacts with a reader 47 which is fixedly attached to the housing of the packer 11 in a corresponding position parallel to the axis of rotation of the bobbin 25. Alternatively, the transponder 46 is arranged either on the bobbin core 45 or one end of the material web and cooperates with a stationary position in the corresponding position in the interior of the pin 44 perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the reel 25 aligned reader 47 together. Each transponder 46 arranged on the bobbin core 45 is preferably designed as a rewritable transponder 46. Then, on the transponder 46 in the case of a reel in use 25, the amount of each remaining material can be stored, so that with the reading of the material identifier eg also can be determined how many cigarette packs can still be produced or packaged with the remaining material. After consumption of the material, a new material identifier and an associated quantity information can be stored on the transponder. The data of the transponder 46 mounted on the material or on the reel 25 can also provide information about the respective material manufacturer, so that certain information and control signals for influencing individual production units can be derived therefrom and / or derive adjustment of adjustable organs. The material of different manufacturers often has different physical properties. Thus, for example, the films for outer wrappings of cigarette packs 48 have different properties that may necessitate an adjustment, for example, the sealing temperature of sealing organs.

FIG 5 shows a view of the film wrapping machine 12 (see view V in FIG 1), each with supplied on bobbins 25 starting material. A central region (view VI) of the film wrapping machine 12 is shown in FIG.

Cigarette packs 48 are wrapped in a film by the film wrapping machine 12, for this purpose they process a film web (cello web 49) and possibly a tear thread. The substantially horizontal conveying path of the cigarette packs 48 through the film wrapping machine 12 is illustrated by corresponding arrows. The wrapping film 64 (FIG. 9) is guided as a cello web 49 in the film wrapping machine 12 via various rollers. In this case, the cello track 49 is also guided past an optical sensor designed as a light barrier 50. The light barrier 50 serves to detect a printing mark provided on the cello web 49. Thus, the light barrier 50 is an adjustable organ. The adjustment consists e.g. in the specification of a threshold value for the respectively supplied signal or in a variation of a time segment (machine angle) during which signals are evaluated by the light barrier 50 or in a relative movement of the light barrier 50 itself to investigate predetermined positions on the cello track 49. The in foil wrapped cigarette packs 48 are guided along a first and second heater 51, 52, wherein the first heater 51 is provided for sealing a longitudinal seam of the ügarettenschachtel 48 surrounding film and the second heater 52 for sealing a lid and a bottom of the film wrapping. The or each heater 51, 52 is part of a sealing member which acts on the material to be sealed by both temperature and pressure. The heater 51, 52 or the sealing organ, hereinafter collectively referred to as a sealing organ, is also an adjustable organ. The adjustment consists in a specification e.g. a setpoint temperature for the heating and possibly in the prescription of a pressure. In addition, also in the case of a sealing element, the adjustment can comprise a relative movement, in order to obtain e.g. center the heater over material ends to be sealed.

By an organ of the film wrapping machine 12, a banding apparatus, the cigarette packs 48 are provided with a band 53, such as a tax stamp. To check the presence and position of the band 53 is adjustable as another Organ a CCD camera 54 is provided. The adjustment of the CCD camera 54 consists essentially in a specification of, for example, threshold values or limit values in order, for example, to be able to distinguish a band 53 of lower average brightness from a higher average brightness. In addition, in a CCD camera 54, which is suitable for detecting simple optical structures, such as edges, for adjustment data about the type, number and location of the expected edges are transmitted to a band 53 with a first edge pattern of one with Finally, the CCD camera 54 can be transmitted for adjustment data on an expected position of the band 53 on the cigarette pack 48 or other data on the appearance or appearance characteristics, such as gray parts, contrast or pattern, etc. of the band 53 , In this case, the CCD camera 54 can also be transmitted a plurality of different images for representing respectively different bands 53 and for comparison with the respectively recognized band 53. Thus, incorrectly positioned, nonexistent or false bands 53 can be distinguished from correct bands 53. The correct position of a band 53 may vary depending on the type of cigarette packs 48 produced.

FIG 7 shows as a detail (see view VII) of the film wrapping machine 12 the banding apparatus with a banderole 55, a driven by a servo motor 56 cam 57 for transport and to place each a banderole 53 on a cigarette pack 48 and a pressure washer 58 for fixing the set Banderole 53 on the cigarette pack 48 during further transport through the film wrapping machine 12: For transporting the cigarette packs 48 through the banding apparatus a conveyor belt 59 is provided, on which the cigarette packs 48 rest. The cigarette packs 48 are fixed on the conveyor belt 59 by equidistantly arranged drivers 60 in the transport direction (indicated by horizontally directed arrows). The banding apparatus or at least its cam disc 57 together with the driving servomotor 56, hereinafter collectively referred to as a banding apparatus, is likewise an adjustable organ. By adjusting the banding apparatus, it is possible to use this e.g. for a so-called Flachauflegen or a so-called Übereck-laying the band 53 to configure. 8 shows in the left-hand area a cigarette pack 48 with a flat-laid band 53 and in the right-hand area a cigarette pack 48 with a band 53 which runs over at least one corner of the cigarette pack 48 ("placed over corner").

In FIG 7, the applied over corner banderole 53 is shown as a solid, bold line and the flat-laid band 53 dashed lines. The cam plate 57 transported on the or each cam in each case a band 53. The rotational movement of the cam disc 57 and the translational movement of the conveyor belt 59 with the overlying cigarette packs 48 are coordinated with each other, for example by means of an electric wave. The coordination ensures that whenever a cigarette pack 48 is located in a suitable position under the cam plate 57, and the cam with the band 53 is in a position for placing the band 53 on the cigarette pack 48. The cam of the cam plate 57 is shown in the position for transversely placing the band 53 with a solid line and in the position for laying flat of the band 53 with a dashed line. With an imaginary line running perpendicularly through the axis of rotation of the cam disk 57 and centrally through the cam, a first such line is produced by the cam in its position for laying flat the band 53 and a second such line through the cam in its position to Laying the band 53 an angle that describes a rotational offset of the two cam positions. The adjustment of the banding apparatus is thus essentially in the specification of the respective position of the cam to a cigarette pack 48 located under the cam disc 57. The rotation of the cam disc 57 is coupled to the movement of the conveyor belt 59. Thus, the adjustment of the Banderolenapparates refers to a rotational offset in the sense of a lead or lag between the cam 57 and the conveyor belt 59. The adjustment can be done by specifying a relative rotation to a reference position of the cam 57, in which case for adjusting the Banderolenapparates to flat how to apply the appropriate rotatory offset for the sake of interleaving. The reference position can also correspond, for example, to the position for laying flat, so that the reference values are restored for an adjustment to the flat laying and a matching rotary offset is taken into account for an adjustment for laying over the corner. A third possibility of adjusting the banding apparatus is finally to delay or accelerate the conveyor belt 59 for a short time, so that the cigarette packs 48 are located in the respective required position under the cam disk 57 located above the cigarette pack 48 for placing the band 53.

FIGS. 9a and 9b show a first and a second parameter set 61, 62 and illustrate the effects on adjustable organs of individual production units in the selection of a parameter set 61, 62. The data contained in a parameter set 61, 62 are illustrated by corresponding image symbols. First and second parameter set 61, 62 are possibly together with other, not shown parameter sets in a memory area 63, z. B. a memory of the control device 33 (FIG 1) stored. Each parameter set 61, 62 describes a product, such as a cigarette pack 48. The first parameter set 61 describes a cigarette pack 48 of a first type and thus a product or a part of a product of a first type. The second parameter set 62 describes a cigarette pack 48 of a second Kind and thus a product or a part of a product of a second kind. Each parameter set 61, 62 comprises data of the starting materials required for the preparation of the respective product. Thus, the first parameter set 61 comprises data on a first blank 37 and the second parameter set 62 on data on a second blank 38. In addition, each parameter set 61, 62 comprises data on a wrapping film 64 which is used as film web 49 (FIG. 6) in the film wrapping machine 11 (FIG. FIG. 6). In addition to the illustrated starting materials, each parameter set 61, 62 may include data on other required starting materials. The cigarette packs 48, as shown, differ in shape and shape due to respective different blanks 37, 38 for forming the cigarette pack and respectively enveloping wrapping films 64. Each parameter set 61, 62 comprises at least one identifier 65, eg distinguishes a first blank 37, such as a paper or board blank of a first manufacturer, from a basically similar first blank 37 of a second manufacturer. Each identifier 65 identifies a valid source material.

In FIG. 9a, each parameter set 61, 62 is represented in the form of a tabular or matrix-like structure with four columns 69, 70, 71, 72. The first column 69 also forms a head of the parameter set 61, 62 in the manner of a heading. When accessing the parameter set 61, 62, an operator can be represented graphically or textually on a display device, such as a screen, by means of the information associated with this first column 69 or the subsequent complete parameter set 61, 62, for example for selecting the data set 61, 62. The second column 70 comprises the required starting materials. The equivalent of the second column 70 in the memory is, for example, a field with a certain number of field elements, wherein a separate field element is provided for each required starting material. Each element of the column 70 with a first element with the blank 37, 38, a second element with the wrapping film 64 and possibly other elements not shown corresponds to such a field element. In order to be able to assign a basically arbitrary number of required starting materials to each parameter set 61, 62, the equivalent of the second column 70 in the memory can also be a dynamic data structure, eg a list concatenated on one or two sides. Such a list includes a number of starting materials required matched number of list elements, each element of the column 70 corresponding to such a list element. Because of the basic equivalence of field and list as well as field and list element, field and list as well as field and list element are referred to collectively as field or field element. The third column 71 includes a number of identifiers 65 for each required starting material, each identifier 65 identifying an acceptable starting material. According to FIG. 9, in the first and second parameter set 61, 62, two identifications 65 and each wrapping film 64 are associated with three identifiers 65 for each blank 37, 38. The two identifiers 65 to the or each blank 37, 38 and the three identifiers 65 to each wrapping film 64 are each stored in memory in their own field, each identifier 65 corresponds to a field element. The fourth column 72 comprises for each identifier 65 data for the respective valid source material identified by the identifier 65. These data can also include manipulated variables for adjusting adjustable organs. If the manipulated variables are not stored in the parameter set 61, 62, they are located in a separate database 66. Otherwise, these data include, for example, information on the nature of the respective permissible starting material, such as thickness or weight. Overall, this results in a hierarchical structure in the memory. A first field comprises a number of field elements, each field element corresponding to a parameter set 61, 62. Each parameter set 61, 62 comprises a second field with a number of field elements, each field element corresponding to a required starting material. Each of these field elements comprises a third field with a number of field elements, each field element comprising an identifier 65 for identifying a permitted starting material. Each of these field elements is assigned data for the respective starting material.

The change of products of the first type to products of the second type is effected, for example, by selecting the second parameter set 62 instead of the previously selected first parameter set 61. (Selected or suitably determined data are in contrast to the unselected or unsuitable ones indicated by dashed arrows Data indicated by solid whistle or filled arrowheads.) This selection makes an operator, for example, by means of an input and output unit, such as keyboard and screen of the control device 33 (FIG 1). Following such a product change, the material identifier of the starting materials present at the respective production units is checked. This can be done by reading the material identifier assigned to the or each starting material. For this purpose, in each production unit, means such as in particular a transponder 46 (FIG. 4) and an associated reader 47 (FIG. 4) for recording one each Material identifier of the or each respectively supplied starting material provided. In this case, the material identifier is stored in a bobbin 25 (FIG. 4) having the starting material stored, for example, in a bobbin 25 assigned transponder 46. The or each production unit is associated with a machine control 35 (see also FIG. 1), under the control of which, triggered by the control device 33, the material code is read out. If a production unit has recorded the material identifier of the respectively supplied starting material, it is checked whether a suitable identifier 65 is contained in the parameter set 62 selected during the product change. If no matching identifier 65 is found in the selected parameter set 62 for at least one material identifier, an error message is generated, which is output, for example, on a screen associated with the controller 33. A recorded material identifier and an identifier 65 in the parameter set 62 match, for example, if they match completely or in a predetermined or predeterminable number of significant bits. Alternatively or additionally, it may also be provided that suitable starting material is automatically fed to each production unit in accordance with the selected parameter set 62, for example by the material conveyor 26 (FIG. 1). For this purpose, the material identifier is read out from the stock material stored in the bearing 24 (FIG. 1) and removed from the bearing 24 when a starting material with a material identifier matching the identifier 65 is found and supplied to the respective production unit. If at least one production unit can not supply the or each required starting material, an error message is generated.

When determining an identifier 65 of the selected parameter set 62 which matches the material identifier, a manipulated variable associated with the identified identifier 65 or the recorded material identifier is transmitted to the respective production unit for adjusting the or each adjustable member of the production unit. The or each manipulated variable is taken either from the selected parameter set 62 or from the database 66, in which access to the respective manipulated variable on the basis of the determined identifier 65 or the recorded material identifier in the manner of an index or the like is possible.

Either continuously in the production process, but at least before the adjustment of the adjustable organs according to the data of the selected parameter set 62, ie the product change, 67 material-specific data 68, such as consumption or reject or failure rates are archived based on the identifier 65 or material identifier in an operating data collection to recognize which material is in the production process best proven. The access to this material-specific data 68 is based on an identifier 65, possibly the same identifier 65, which is also used in the parameter set 61, 62, in the manner of an index. The respective material-specific data 68 are shown as an image symbol in the form of a floppy disk. The operating data acquisition 67 is carried out in particular for different products, ie, for example, different types of cigarette packs 48, separately.

Prior to adjustment of the adjustable organs according to the data of the database 66 (or the selected parameter set 62), the hitherto valid settings of the or each manufacturing unit and / or the or each adjustable organ are stored for eventual later reuse. The settings stored in this way can also deviate from the stored manipulated variables and, if necessary, replace them if the settings are based on adjustments of the operating personnel. Then you can select whether the last valid settings have improved the production process. If this is the case, the associated manipulated variables in the database 66 are modified accordingly. This enables a continuous improvement of the production process in the manner of an evolutionary strategy. Among the data stored in this way include z. B. the data for adjusting the CCD camera 54 as stated above. The storage of the last valid settings prior to the product change is illustrated by a data record 73 assigned to the respective machine control 35. The data record 73 contains data for adjusting the adjustable organ for producing the product of the first type, such as the cigarette pack 48, which were used until the product change in the production process (arrow from the cigarette pack 48 to the data record 73 shown in dashed lines). For later reuse, individual or all data, such. B. taken in accordance with a selection of an operator in the database 66.

To illustrate each manipulated variable in the database 66 associated with an identifier 65 or material identifier, a cam plate 57 (see also FIG. 7), a light barrier 50 (see also FIG. 6) as an optical sensor, a heater 51 (see also FIG. as a sealing member and a variable length of a wrapping film 64 shown. One or more identifiers 65 may be associated with a single manipulated variable. This makes it possible to take into account that a single starting material, the adjustment of several adjustable organs or a plurality of permissible starting materials may require an individual adjustment of the same adjustable organ.

The or each determined manipulated variable is transmitted from the database 66 (or the selected parameter set 62) to the respective functional unit or its machine control 35 and causes a movable adjustable organ z, B, a change in a relative position with respect to a reference position. In the banding apparatus, the transmission of the manipulated variable, e.g. an influence on the rotational offset of the cam disk 57 of the film wrapping machine 12. Furthermore, the transmission of the manipulated variable, e.g. a suitable evaluation of the data supplied by the light barrier 50 of the film wrapping machine 12 as an optical sensor and an adjustment of the temperature of the heater 51 of the sealing member of the film wrapping machine 12. Finally, the transmission of the manipulated variable causes e.g. the setting of a cut length for cutting film blanks from the wrapping film 64th

Access to the database 66 is based on the respective identifier 65 of the selected or provided starting material. The database 66 is essentially realized in the memory as a field, referred to below as product-type-related parameter set 74, with a number of field elements. Each product type-related parameter set 74 corresponds to a product, eg a cigarette pack 48 and comprises, again as a field with a number of field elements, a matrix whose columns 75 are assigned to individual output materials or machine configurations and whose lines 76 are assigned to the respective manipulated variables. If a starting material requires influencing of a manipulated variable, that is to say an adjustment of an adjustable element, the identifier 65 of the starting material is entered in the field assigned to the respective column 75 and line 76. Upon transmission of an identifier 65 of a permissible and recognized as suitable starting material to the database 66, a corresponding identifier 65 is searched in the database 66. If the identifier 65 is found in the database 66, the or each manipulated variable of the field element to which the identified identifier 65 is assigned is transmitted to a functional unit identifiable likewise by the identifier 65 or its machine control 35 for adjusting the or each adjustable member. In the case of, blanks 37, 38, the produktactbezogene parameter set 74 includes, for example, manipulated variables for adjusting a folding organ for folding the cigarette box and / or manipulated variables for adjusting glue nozzles for applying the required glue pattern, In the case of wrapping film 64 includes the product type-related parameter set 74, for example manipulated variables for Adjustment of an optical sensor, such as a light barrier 50 (see also FIG. 6), for detecting eg printed marks on the wrapping film 64.

FIG. 10 shows the product-type-related parameter set 74 from FIG. 9b. Shown is a parameter set relating to a specific product, a cigarette pack 48, which comprises parameters, ie manipulated variables, for adjusting adjustable organs. The manipulated variables are only shown by the adjustable organs themselves. With the product-type-related parameter set 74 it is also possible to take account of dependencies of individual starting materials among one another. If e.g. for a wrapping film 64 as a control variable for the heater 51 of the sealing member a temperature of e.g. 160 ° C is given, with a blank 37 with a coating with high thermal conductivity, this temperature for reliable sealing of the material ends is not sufficient. There is a dependency between the blank 37 and the wrapping film 64, which is taken into account by corresponding data of the product-type-related parameter set 74. The product type-related parameter set 74 then contains for the heater 51 as manipulated variable, e.g. a temperature of e.g. 165 ° C, with the wrapping film 64 can be securely sealed in conjunction with the special blank 37. The situation is similar with respect to a blank 37 and a band 53 to be applied thereto. For a specific blank 37 and a particular band 53, it may be provided that this band 53 is always placed over the corner. The product-type-related parameter set 74 then contains for this combination of starting materials a manipulated variable for adjusting the cam disk 57 to be laid over. For only starting material-dependent control variables, such. for adjusting the light barrier 50, the parameter set in the corresponding line 76 contains only the identifier of the respective starting material.

The or each product type related parameter set 74 may be extended or updated during operation of the line. Upon extension, additional identifiers 65 of one or more source materials are received, thereby generating another row 76 with a manipulated variable associated with the raw material (s). In the case of an update, the manipulated variable for an existing line 76 is adapted to the more favorable values determined during the operation of the line. The extension or update of the product type-related parameter set 74 is transparent to the user. This means that the user, the operator of the line, for example, actuates a key to accept the data of the current production. The corresponding product type-related parameter set 74 is then determined on the basis of the respectively produced product, that is, for example, based on the manufactured cigarette pack 48. This is searched for suitable matching identifiers 64 for each starting material used and, in the case of a found identifier 64, the respectively associated manipulated variable is updated. If the identifier of a source material is not found, then generates a new line 76 and registered in this line 76 in the column 75 of the respective starting material, the identifier 64 of the starting material. In the same line 76, the associated manipulated variable is entered. In order to determine which of the various manipulated variables is entered into an identifier 64 in the product-type-related parameter set 74, it is stored for each manipulated variable from which starting material (s) it may be dependent. A dependency on several starting materials is indicated in the illustration by the symbol "⊕". The manipulated variable for adjusting the light barrier 50 depends only on the wrapping film 64 used. The manipulated variable for adjusting the heater 51 is dependent on the combination of wrapping film 64 and blank 37 and the manipulated variable for adjusting the cam disk 57 is dependent on the combination of blank 37 and band 53.

In addition to starting materials, at least one column 75 for machine configurations is provided in the product-type-related parameter set 74, which can likewise influence the adjustment of adjustable organs. As an example of such a machine configuration, an adjustment curve 77 for a cutting device for separating the wrapping film 64 is provided. In the appropriate column, a machine configuration value 78 describing the machine configuration is entered. The numerical value "06" indicates the sixth stage of the readjustment of the cutting device due to wear. Line 76 with machine configuration value 78 is used when a wrapping film 64 is used along with a blank 37 with the indicia 65 indicated in line 76 and when the cutter is in the readjustment level indicated at machine configuration value 78. Then, a length of individual foil blanks influencing control value is output to the machine controller 35. The extension or addition of the product-type-related parameter set 74 is also possible with respect to such machine configurations. That If the cutting device is only in the third stage of the readjustment and the operator retrieves a transfer of current data and the product-type-related parameter set 74, a further line 76 is generated, the identifiers 65 of Einschtagfolie 64 and blank 37, as machine configuration value 78 the numerical value " 03 "and the current manipulated variable for specifying the length of the film blank includes.

The parameter sets 61, 62 as well as the database 66 and the operating data acquisition 67 can, for. B. stored in the memory of the controller 33. Alternatively, the parameter sets 61, 62 and / or the database 66 and / or the operating data acquisition 62 also distributed, so z. B. be stored in a memory of each machine control. This makes the control device 33 unnecessary in the sense of a central control, so that each production unit can be controlled by its own, decentralized machine controller 35. This can also be done optimizing the parameters for adjusting adjustable organs for each machine control 35 individually.

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10

Maker

11

packer

12

Film-wrapping machine

13

rod packer

14

cartoner

15

Zgarettenförderer

16

cigarette store

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blank store

18

pack conveyor

19

bar conveyor

20

shipping container

21

discharge conveyor

22

pack store

23

filter attachment

24

camp

25

reel

26

Materialförderer

27

conveyor track

28

Filteransetzpapier

29

collar material

30

Inner liner material

31

film material

32

cigarette paper

33

control device

34

fieldbus

35

machine control

36

37

cut

38

cut

39

glue spots

40

Cover inner lobes (long)

41

Cover inner lobes (short)

42

axis

43

Plate

44

spigot

45

reel core

46

transponder

47

reader

48

cigarette packs

49

Cello-Bahn

50

photocell

51

First heating

52

Second heating

53

banderole

54

CCD camera

55

band storage

56

servomotor

57

cam

58

puck

59

conveyor belt

60

takeaway

61

First parameter set

62

Second parameter set

63

storage area

64

wrapping film

65

ID

66

database

67

Data Acquisition

68

dates

69

column

70

column

71

column

72

column

73

record

74

product type related parameter set

75

column

76

row

77

Nachstellkurve

78

Machine configuration value

Claims (7)

Production and packaging plant - line - with production units, such as in particular (cigarette) manufacturing machine (Maker 10), packaging machine (packer 11), if necessary film wrapping machine (12), if necessary packer (rod packer 13) and possibly case packer (cartoner 14) , for the manufacture and / or in particular ready-to-ship packaging of products - cigarettes and cigarette packaging - from in particular on a reel held starting materials, characterized in that at least one or each manufacturing unit is associated with a reader which is designed to read data stored on a respective transponder data the respectively supplied starting material, in particular a material identifier or a residual amount of starting material. Manufacturing and packaging plant according to claim 1, characterized in that the transponder (46) is arranged on or in one foot of the bobbin core (45) and cooperates with a stationary in a corresponding position parallel to the axis of rotation of the reel (25) aligned reader (47) , Manufacturing and packaging plant according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the transponder (46) either on the bobbin core (45) or at one end the web is arranged and that the reader (47) is fixed in a corresponding position perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the reel (25). Bobin for holding raw material which is supplied to a production and packaging line - with production units for producing and / or, in particular, ready-to-ship packaging of products, in particular (cigarette) production machine (maker 10), packaging machine (packer 11), if necessary Film wrapping machine (12), if necessary packer (rod packer 13) and possibly case packer (cartoner 14), characterized in that the reel has a rewritable transponder on which data, such as a material identifier or a material remainder information, can be stored. Bobine for holding raw material according to claim 4, characterized by one or more features of claims 2 or 3. Method for controlling a production and packaging plant - line - with production units, such as in particular (cigarette) Herstallmaschine (Maker 10), packaging machine (Packer 11), if necessary film wrapping machine (12), if necessary packer (rod packer 13) and possibly Kartonpacker (Cartoner 14), for producing and / or in particular ready for dispatch packaging of products - cigarettes and cigarette packaging - especially on a reel held starting materials, characterized in that on the starting material associated, rewritable storage means, in particular transponder, data are stored, such as a material identifier or a material remainder information. Method for controlling a production and packaging plant - line - with production units, such as in particular (cigarette) manufacturing machine (Maker 10), packaging machine (packer 11), if necessary film wrapping machine (12), if necessary packer packer (bar packer 13) and possibly case packer (Cartoner 14), for the manufacture and / or in particular ready for dispatch packaging of products - cigarettes and cigarette packaging - especially on a reel held starting materials, characterized in that the starting material, in particular the bobbin for holding the starting material, information is assigned to a (partial) consumption of the starting material represents the remaining material residue.

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