EP3659932A2 - Procédé et systèmes d'emballage d'articles - Google Patents

Procédé et systèmes d'emballage d'articles Download PDF

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EP3659932A2
EP3659932A2 EP19203176.3A EP19203176A EP3659932A2 EP 3659932 A2 EP3659932 A2 EP 3659932A2 EP 19203176 A EP19203176 A EP 19203176A EP 3659932 A2 EP3659932 A2 EP 3659932A2
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Johannes KIRZINGER
Frank Winzinger
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  • the present invention relates to methods and systems for packaging articles.
  • the respective container which can be a PET bottle or glass bottle, for example, forms a primary packaging in which the respective beverage or the respective liquid is safely accommodated.
  • the shrink film can form a secondary packaging which holds the primary packaging in the form of a PET bottle or glass bottle together with the liquid or the respective drink consumed. It is also known from practice to form secondary packaging using cardboard boxes in which articles having primary packaging can already be used.
  • containers with such so-called disposable secondary packaging made of PE shrink film or the like often have handles made of flexible material, for example made of sufficiently stable film, cardboard, paper, plastics such as PVC or mixed materials, possibly with a paper and / or cardboard reinforced handle area.
  • the ends of the handle strips can be fixed to the side surfaces of the container, for example by welding or gluing.
  • the ends of the handle may have self-adhesive areas.
  • the properties of a film are therefore to be taken into account as one of several process parameters when shrinking the film formed as a secondary packaging onto respective primary packaging or onto respective glass and / or PET bottles.
  • the film is finally applied in a shrink tunnel in which the film is subjected to temperature for shrinking.
  • the temperature and dwell time of the respective film in the shrink tunnel must be specified or set within narrow ranges so that the respective film provided for the secondary packaging can hold articles together securely after the shrinking process.
  • Shrink tunnel known from the prior art can also have nozzles which act on the respective film with a hot gas volume flow.
  • the respective secondary packaging is designed, for example, as a cardboard box which has side and / or top flaps that have to be wrapped in the course of packaging the respective article, then in practice there is also the need to process process parameters relating to the wrapping of the flaps to other process parameters , such as having to adjust the dimensions of the respective items.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a way with which the problems mentioned can be avoided or at least reduced.
  • the invention first relates to a method for packaging articles.
  • a packaging program is carried out by a packaging device, in the context of which packaging program the packaging device applies secondary packaging to at least one article that already has primary packaging.
  • the primary packaging can be designed, for example, as a beverage can, which has received a beverage or liquid. It may also be the case that the primary packaging is designed as a beverage bottle in which a beverage or liquid is accommodated.
  • the primary packaging is designed as a beverage container.
  • the respective secondary packaging can be formed, for example, by cutting thermoplastic packaging material, in particular a thermoplastic film or shrink film. It may also be the case that the respective secondary packaging is formed by a cardboard box and / or by further secondary packaging.
  • the respective secondary packaging can be formed by an integral connection or by an adhesive connection, via which integral connection or via which adhesive connection directly adjacent articles are held together.
  • an external memory preferably in the form of cloud storage
  • the packaging device carries out data communication which is matched to known and / or established packaging conditions. It may be that the packaging device is given individual data or information on packaging conditions and / or that the packaging device provides individual data Determines packaging conditions and then calls up further data for a respective packaging program from the external memory, which is preferably designed as cloud storage.
  • the packaging device for creating and / or regulating a packaging program with the external memory which is preferably in the form of a cloud memory, performs data communication that is matched to known and / or established packaging conditions, via an Internet-based remote access.
  • At least one process parameter provided for carrying out the packaging program or one packaging condition provided for the packaging program are specified. It may also be the case that the at least one process parameter or the packaging condition provided for carrying out the packaging program is determined with the aid of at least one sensor system. In addition or as an alternative to this, it may be that the at least one process parameter provided for carrying out the packaging program is specified via a user interface.
  • packaging conditions are determined by sensors and / or that packaging conditions are specified for the packaging device via a user interface. Accordingly, it may be that a user specifies packaging conditions via a user interface, from which, taking into account the specified packaging conditions, at least one specific packaging program suitable for applying the secondary packaging via the packaging device is called up from the external memory, which is preferably designed as cloud storage. It may also be the case that, taking into account the packaging conditions specified by a user, several packaging programs, each suitable for applying the secondary packaging via the packaging device, are called up from the external memory, which is preferably designed as a cloud storage, and are offered to the user for selection on a display.
  • a respective process parameter provided for carrying out a packaging program or a respective packaging condition provided for carrying out the packaging program is not specified directly or immediately as a respective value or respective size. It is conceivable, for example, that a transport speed of a horizontal conveyor device is determined and / or specified by providing a control and / or regulating device with information on the respective number of articles to be packed within a specific time interval.
  • At least one sensor system which is described below and is connected to a control and / or regulating device, can comprise a temperature sensor which is prepared for measuring or detecting an ambient temperature. It may also be the case that the at least one sensor system has at least one detection device, with the aid of which at least one detection device material characteristics of a respective secondary packaging to be applied to at least one article already having a primary packaging can be determined.
  • the secondary packaging can be designed in various embodiments as a cut of thermoplastic packaging material. If necessary, a print can be applied to the cut of thermoplastic packaging material.
  • the at least one detection device can be embodied as an optical detection device, whereby stretch properties of the blank of thermoplastic packaging material are determined via the optical detection device and material characteristics of the blank of thermoplastic packaging material are deduced from the determined stretch properties, which material characteristics form a process parameter or a packaging condition.
  • the packaging device can then carry out data communication with the external memory, which is preferably in the form of a cloud memory, in the context of which data communication the packaging device determines the material characteristics of the Retrieves and executes cutting of the packaging program that takes thermoplastic packaging material into account from the external storage or from the cloud storage.
  • the respective secondary packaging is formed by a respective cut of thermoplastic packaging material and that the at least one detection device is formed by at least one optical sensor system and in particular by at least one camera. With the aid of the at least one optical sensor system or the at least one camera, material characteristics of the respective secondary packaging to be applied to at least one article that already has primary packaging can be concluded.
  • information on material characteristics of the respective secondary packaging is stored on or in the area of a respective secondary packaging which is prepared for application to at least one article having a primary packaging.
  • an RFID transponder can be arranged on the respective secondary packaging, which is prepared for application to at least one article having a primary packaging, on which information about material characteristics of the respective secondary packaging is stored or stored.
  • Other coding options are also conceivable, which can be arranged on the respective secondary packaging or can be applied to the respective secondary packaging and have information on material characteristics of the respective secondary packaging or point to information on material characteristics of the respective secondary packaging.
  • bar codes affixed to the respective secondary packaging are suitable, by means of which, if necessary, material characteristics of a respective secondary packaging can be concluded.
  • the material characteristics can form at least one process parameter or a packaging condition provided for carrying out the packaging program, which is determined by sensors if necessary.
  • a process parameter provided for carrying out a packaging program or a packaging condition provided for carrying out a packaging program is specified by an operator.
  • At least one further process parameter is called up from a memory which contains at least one further process parameter the memory is linked to the previously mentioned at least one predetermined and / or determined process parameter.
  • the previously mentioned at least one predefined and / or ascertained process parameter in the external memory or cloud storage is linked to further process parameters, the at least one predefined and / or ascertained process parameter together with the linked further process parameters as a component of a packaging program that has already been carried out at an earlier point in time.
  • a respective point in time at which the previous packaging program was carried out can optionally be made available to an operator via a display. Accordingly, packaging programs carried out at an earlier point in time can be stored or stored in the external memory or cloud memory.
  • a control and / or regulating device taking into account the at least one predetermined and / or ascertained process parameter, together with further process parameters, simulates a packaging process or a packaging program and stores links for process parameters in the external memory or in the cloud memory, if provided it is determined during the simulation that the respective simulated packaging process or the respective simulated packaging program fulfills predetermined criteria.
  • the packaging process or the packaging program is then carried out with the at least one predetermined and / or determined process parameter and the at least one further process parameter retrieved from the external memory or cloud memory, in the context of which packaging process or within which Packaging program the secondary packaging is applied to the at least one article already having a primary packaging.
  • the application of secondary packaging to at least one article already having primary packaging is monitored over the course of time and that the packaging device regulates the respective packaging program, taking the monitoring into account, if necessary, and for this purpose with the external memory, which is preferably designed as a cloud storage Carries out data communication.
  • the application of the Secondary packaging for at least one article that already has a primary packaging is monitored with the aid of at least one preferably optical sensor system, by using the at least one preferably optical sensor system, a condition, characteristics and / or dimensioning of the respective applied secondary packaging is ascertained and / or by using the aid the at least one, preferably optical, sensor system determines the nature, characteristics and / or dimensions of the at least one article that already has primary packaging.
  • the packaging device can send a created and / or regulated packaging program to the external memory, which is preferably in the form of a cloud memory, and can be called up and stored in the external memory, which is preferably in the form of a cloud memory.
  • further packaging devices can access the packaging program stored in the memory and can then use this packaging program, which was previously used for packaging articles by the packaging device, to pack further articles or to apply secondary packaging to further articles.
  • Several packaging devices can thus communicate with one another or exchange packaging programs with one another via the external memory or cloud memory.
  • At least one further packaging device which carries out at least one further packaging device a packaging program, in the context of which packaging program the at least one further packaging device applies secondary packaging to at least one article already having primary packaging.
  • the at least one further packaging device for creating and / or regulating its packaging program with the external memory which is preferably in the form of a cloud memory, carries out data communication which is matched to known and / or established packaging conditions.
  • the at least one further packaging device uses the packaging program already sent by the packaging device to the external memory, which is preferably designed as a cloud storage, and stored in the external memory, which is preferably designed as a cloud storage.
  • At least one further packaging device is provided, the packaging device and the at least one further packaging device each carrying out a packaging program, in the context of which respective packaging program the packaging device and the at least one further packaging device each apply secondary packaging to at least one article that already has primary packaging .
  • a common and preferably designed as a cloud storage external storage can be provided, the packaging device and the at least one further packaging device for creating and / or regulating its packaging program each with the common and preferably designed as a cloud storage external memory carry out a respective data communication coordinated with known and / or established packaging conditions.
  • a server can be provided, which is assigned to the packaging device and the at least one further packaging device together.
  • the packaging device and the at least one further packaging device can carry out a respective data communication matched to known and / or established packaging conditions in order to create and / or regulate their packaging program via the server, in each case with the common and preferably external cloud storage.
  • packaging programs can be called up from the cloud storage or from the external storage as part of the data communication.
  • a user can optionally select a specific packaging program from the plurality of packaging programs retrieved from the memory.
  • the packaging device can then use the specific packaging program selected by a user to apply a respective secondary packaging to the respective at least one article already having a primary packaging.
  • a packaging program can be selected by a user, which is characterized by a lower energy requirement or by a high throughput in the packaging of articles compared to the other packaging programs called up.
  • the respective energy requirement, the respective throughput and / or further characteristics of the several packaging programs retrieved from the cloud storage or external storage can be shown to the user on a display, whereupon the user may select the specific packaging program from the several packaging programs retrieved.
  • the display can be designed as a touchscreen.
  • the data communication coordinated with known and / or established packaging conditions takes place with the external memory, which is preferably designed as cloud storage, by means of an Internet-based remote access. It may also be the case that the several alternative packaging programs are called up from the cloud storage or external storage by means of Internet-based remote access. It may be that the control and / or regulating device described further below is connected to a server, the data communication via the control and / or regulating device and via the server using an internet-based remote access to the external memory or cloud. Memory is done.
  • a secondary packaging is applied continuously to different articles each having at least one primary packaging.
  • the actual quality characteristics of the secondary packaging are preferably detected by sensors, which secondary packaging has been applied to the different articles and in each case at least one article that already has a primary packaging.
  • the packaging process or the packaging program can be regulated as required to achieve predetermined target quality characteristics or to approximate predetermined target quality characteristics as a function of the preferably sensor-recorded actual quality characteristics by means of data communication between the packaging device and the external memory or cloud memory.
  • packaging programs can be stored in the external memory or cloud memory as a database or part of a database, which several different packaging programs are suitable for, or prepared for, different packaging devices and / or different packaging conditions.
  • a control and / or regulating device that can be operated by a user can be provided, which is connected to the external memory or the cloud memory and can access the database.
  • the control and / or regulating device can comprise a database management system, an operator possibly accessing the memory by means of the database management system and taking packaging programs from external storage or cloud storage into account, taking into account the known and / or specified packaging conditions.
  • Packaging programs stored in the memory can also be linked to one another via integrity conditions.
  • packaging conditions can optionally be recognized with the aid of at least one preferably optical sensor system, by determining the nature, characteristics and / or dimensions of the respective secondary packaging with the aid of the at least one preferably optical sensor system and / or by using the at least one preferably optical sensor system a quality, characteristics and / or dimensions of the at least one article already having primary packaging are determined.
  • At least one packaging condition in accordance with step b) can be a value which is already established when the respective packaging device is delivered.
  • This packaging condition can accordingly include information or notes on a number of webs through which bundles and / or articles pass within the packaging device and / or information and / or notes on a target speed of the packaging device or a target output.
  • This at least one packaging condition can contain, for example, information and / or information about a target machine speed or a desired output and / or information and / or information about the respective secondary packaging intended for the packaging program.
  • both packaging conditions corresponding to step b) and packaging conditions or further packaging conditions corresponding to step e) can be provided for a respective packaging program.
  • the packaging device or a packaging device that may be provided for implementing the respective method can comprise a control and / or regulating device and / or a superordinate computer (MES, ERP) via which data or process parameters and / or packaging conditions are transmitted.
  • MES superordinate computer
  • ERP superordinate computer
  • a comparison can be carried out in various embodiments by the on-site control and / or regulating device and or the computer and / or by a program connected to the external memory or the cloud memory, which is stored or stored on an external computer is.
  • external can be understood for various embodiments in the context of the present patent application in such a way that the data or process parameters and / or packaging conditions are transmitted via the Internet, for example via a VPN connection.
  • a comparison step in particular the existing process parameters or packaging conditions are compared with the same process parameters of historical or past packaging programs with regard to greatest agreement.
  • process parameters or a suitable packaging program in particular the process parameters or the respective packaging program can then be transmitted, in which packaging program the greatest correspondence has been found with the transferred packaging conditions or transferred process parameters with historical or chronological packaging conditions or process parameters.
  • the respective method can also be used in order to be able to plan maintenance work on the packaging machine or the packaging device or the system, since recorded measured values can also be transferred from individual machine parts to the external memory or the cloud memory.
  • a target temperature within the shrink tunnel (both during operation and during a standby mode and at various positions in the shrink tunnel, for example on a conveyor belt or in the interior) and a cooling capacity (for the conveyor belt and / or for the packaging) represents a determined packaging condition.
  • the invention also relates to systems for packaging articles.
  • Features which have already been described above for various embodiments of the method can also be provided in various embodiments of the systems described below and are not mentioned several times.
  • features which relate to various embodiments of the systems described below can be provided in various embodiments of the methods already described above.
  • a system initially comprises a packaging machine which can apply a secondary packaging to at least one article which already has a primary packaging which is preferably designed as a beverage container.
  • a horizontal conveyor device can be arranged upstream of the packaging machine, via which the packaging machine can be supplied with a number of articles comprising several articles.
  • the secondary packaging is preferably formed by cutting thermoplastic packaging material, by cardboard or by a material connection.
  • the system can provide a packaging device for producing containers from articles which are connected to one another at adhesive points by an adhesive and have primary packaging designed as a beverage container. At the adhesive points, the articles in the finished container meet directly and / or only at a distance from one another by the adhesive.
  • the system comprises a control and / or regulating device, which can control and / or regulate the packaging machine or the packaging device for applying the secondary packaging to the at least one article that already has primary packaging.
  • the system can also include a horizontal conveyor device or a further horizontal conveyor device which extends through the packaging machine.
  • the control and / or regulating device can be designed to control and / or regulate a transport speed of the horizontal conveying device or the further horizontal conveying device provided for articles, which horizontal conveying device or which further horizontal conveying device extends through the packaging machine.
  • the system also includes an external memory, which is preferably designed as cloud storage.
  • an external memory which is preferably designed as cloud storage.
  • the control and / or regulating device can carry out data communication that is matched to known and / or established packaging conditions with the external memory, which is preferably designed as a cloud memory.
  • the invention relates to a system for packaging articles, which comprises a packaging machine, which has a secondary packaging, which is formed by cutting thermoplastic packaging material, by a cardboard box or by a material connection, on at least one article already having a primary packaging designed as a beverage container can muster.
  • the system can also include a packaging device for producing containers from articles which are connected to one another at glue points by means of an adhesive and have primary packaging designed as beverage containers, at which glue points the articles in the finished container directly and / or only abut one another by the adhesive.
  • the system furthermore has a control and / or regulating device which can control and / or regulate the packaging machine or the packaging device for applying the secondary packaging to the at least one article which already has primary packaging.
  • a connection can be established between a control and / or regulating device designed as a component of the packaging machine or the packaging device and an external memory preferably designed as a cloud memory.
  • Known and / or established packaging conditions can be transmitted or sent to the external memory, which is preferably in the form of a cloud storage, the packaging conditions which are preferably in the form of a cloud storage
  • Packaging conditions transmitted or sent from external memory contain information and / or information about a type of packaging device and / or information and / or information about a type of packaging machine.
  • At least one memory or external memory and / or cloud memory can also be part of the respective system, in which a large number of process parameters for controlling and / or regulating the packaging machine are stored.
  • the control and / or regulating device can be designed to ascertain and / or to accept at least one process parameter or a packaging condition provided for carrying out a packaging process or a packaging program.
  • control and / or regulating device can optionally call up at least one further process parameter or a packaging program from the at least one memory or external memory and / or cloud memory, which at least one further process parameter or which packaging program in the memory or the external memory and / or cloud memory with which at least one process parameter ascertained by the control and / or regulating device and / or received by the control and / or regulating device or the known and / or ascertained packaging condition is linked.
  • the packaging machine can be controlled and / or controlled via the control and / or regulating device by means of the above-mentioned at least one further called process parameter in connection with the determined and / or received process parameter for applying the secondary packaging to the at least one article already having primary packaging be controllable.
  • the packaging machine may be designed as a shrink tunnel.
  • the respective secondary packaging can be designed as a blank or as a sheet of thermoplastic packaging material.
  • the respective system comprises at least one sensor system connected to the control and / or regulating device, by means of which the control and / or regulating device can determine packaging conditions.
  • the system is preferably designed as a touchscreen Includes user interface via which packaging conditions can be specified for the control and / or regulating device.
  • the respective system comprises at least one sensor system connected to the control and / or regulating device, via which at least one sensor system the control and / or regulating device has at least one process parameter or at least one packaging condition provided for carrying out the packaging process can determine.
  • the control and / or regulating device comprises a user interface, preferably designed as a touchscreen, via which the control and / or regulating device can receive at least one process parameter or at least one packaging condition provided for carrying out the packaging process.
  • control and / or regulating device comprises a user interface, preferably designed as a touch screen, via which the control and / or regulating device can receive at least one process parameter or a packaging condition provided for carrying out the packaging process by input by an operator.
  • the respective system can also include at least one monitoring means, preferably in the form of an optical sensor or optical sensor system, by means of which at least one monitoring means, preferably in the form of an optical sensor, the control and / or regulating device can use to check whether a respective secondary packaging has a respective at least one article predetermined quality criteria is applied or whether a respective secondary packaging already applied to a respective at least one article corresponds to predetermined quality criteria.
  • the control and / or regulating device can carry out data communication with the at least one monitoring means, preferably designed as an optical sensor, for regulating the packaging machine as required, with the external memory, preferably designed as a cloud memory.
  • Embodiments have also proven themselves in which the control and / or regulating device can adapt a packaging program provided for the packaging machine as part of a regulation and in which the control and / or regulating device for transmitting and calling up a deposit in the frame the regulation for the packaging machine-adapted packaging program is prepared in the external memory, which is preferably designed as cloud storage.
  • the respective system can comprise at least one further packaging machine which can apply a secondary packaging to at least one article which already has a primary packaging.
  • the respective system can include a control and / or regulating device, which can control and / or regulate the at least one further packaging machine for applying the secondary packaging to the at least one article already having primary packaging.
  • the control and / or regulating device and the at least one further control and / or regulating device for controlling and / or regulating their respective packaging machine with a common external storage device, which is preferably designed as a cloud storage device, has a known and / or determined packaging conditions can carry out coordinated respective data communication.
  • the respective system can comprise a common server for the control and / or regulating device and the at least one further control and / or regulating device. It may be the case that the control and / or regulating device and the at least one further control and / or regulating device via the common server with the common and preferably designed as a cloud storage external storage adapted to respective known and / or established packaging conditions Can carry out data communication.
  • the respective system can comprise a display unit on which the several alternative packaging programs retrieved from the external storage or cloud storage can be displayed simultaneously.
  • a user Via the user interface, which is preferably designed as a touchscreen, a user can then select a specific packaging program from the plurality of alternative packaging programs called up from the external memory or cloud memory.
  • the display can be connected to the control and / or regulating device, the control and / or regulating device for displaying indicators, such as for example a respective energy requirement and / or throughput and / or quality (for example strength of the secondary packaging) several alternatives from the external Storage or cloud storage retrieved packaging programs is formed on the display.
  • Embodiments have proven themselves in which the control and / or regulating device and the external memory or cloud memory are each formed as part of a common network operating according to the cloud computing principle.
  • the external memory or cloud memory which represent a packaging program or at least part of a respective packaging program.
  • the external storage or cloud storage forms part of a database or a complete database or that a part of a database or a complete database is stored on the external storage or cloud storage.
  • the external memory or cloud memory can be connected to a computer which can process and / or read out the data or process parameters stored on the memory using a computer program.
  • Parameter combinations or parameter links which were set in the past for further packaging devices or for further implemented packaging programs, can be stored on the external memory or cloud memory.
  • parameter combinations or parameter links (or only individual process parameters) in the database are each linked to a value for a quality of the respective parameter combination or the parameter link.
  • the value can be entered, for example, by operating personnel or determined by a sensor system.
  • a plurality of the following links can be provided, which refer to the further process parameter "cut length", which stands for the length of a cut, which other process parameters can additionally be provided with several quality values.
  • the process parameters to be selected can be displayed on the basis of a list, where the results with the best average value are shown at the top of the list. This prioritization can also depend on a quality criterion to be entered.
  • this computer can be designed as a server, which can at least indirectly communicate with the control and / or regulating device.
  • an interface between the control and / or regulating device and the external memory or cloud memory can be designed such that process parameters or combinations of process parameters or complete packaging programs in the external memory or cloud Storage can be stored, which can be used to set or calibrate packaging devices that have not yet been set up at the time of the deposit or that have not yet been put into operation at the time of the deposit (bidirectional data transmission).
  • the respective system can comprise at least one sensor system, by means of which the control and / or regulating device can recognize actual quality characteristics of primary packaging that has already been applied.
  • a control can be stored on the control and / or regulating device, by means of which the control and / or regulating device, when the secondary packaging is applied, in order to achieve predetermined target quality characteristics or to approximate predetermined target quality characteristics as a function of the respectively recognized actual -Good characteristics can adjust or regulate a packaging program if necessary.
  • Embodiments have proven themselves in which the control stored on the control and / or regulating device is self-learning.
  • Embodiments have also proven themselves in which a computer program which processes data or the process parameters on the external memory or cloud memory is self-learning.
  • control and / or regulating device is designed such that a packaging program called up from the external memory or cloud memory can be replaced independently by the control and / or regulating device by a regulated packaging program.
  • the respective system can be used in order to be able to plan maintenance work on the packaging machine or the packaging device or the respective system, since recorded measurement values from individual machine parts can also be transferred to the external memory or the cloud memory.
  • the respective system can be designed to carry out the method as described above.
  • Figure 1 shows a schematic view of an embodiment of a system 1 according to the invention and illustrates individual steps as can be provided in various embodiments of a method according to the invention.
  • the system 1 is provided for packaging articles 14, which articles 14 are formed here by beverage containers 16 and in particular by bottles.
  • Articles 14 and beverage containers 16 each already have primary packaging, which is formed by the beverage container of a respective beverage container 16 holding the respective liquid or beverage.
  • the beverage containers 14 which already have a primary packaging or a beverage container can be further packaged with a secondary packaging 56 via the system 1.
  • the system 1 comprises a packaging device 2.
  • a horizontal conveyor 44 comprises a conveyor belt 44 'which passes through article 14 leads the shrink tunnel 49.
  • the conveyor belt 44 ' can be designed, for example, as a chain or mesh chain made of steel.
  • the articles 14 or beverage containers 16 are fed to a film packer 46 of the system 1 via a divider (not shown) in such a way that the articles 14 or beverage containers 16 already reach the film packer 46 in a plurality of combinations that are spaced apart from one another in the transport direction 42.
  • a divider not shown
  • FIG 1 two articles 14, each formed as a beverage container 16, of such a combination can be seen.
  • a film supply 52 is arranged below a conveying plane formed by the horizontal conveying devices 44 for the articles 14 or beverage containers 16.
  • the system 1 depicts part of the film supply 52 Figure 1 two film rolls positioned next to one another, thermoplastic packaging material 20, in particular thermoplastic packaging film, being unwound from one of the two film rolls positioned next to one another. If a supply of thermoplastic packaging material 20 of a supply roll is exhausted, thermoplastic packaging material 20 can be unwound from the further of the two film rolls positioned next to one another.
  • Unwound sections of the thermoplastic packaging material 20 are initially still moved below the conveying plane formed by the horizontal conveying devices 44 for the articles 14 or beverage containers 16 and then reach a working area of an application device 60 '.
  • the application device 60 ' can apply handles for a container 10 to be produced with the articles 14 or with the beverage containers 16 to the thermoplastic packaging material 20 which is also connected to the respective supply roll.
  • the application device 60 ′ is followed in the direction of movement or in the conveying direction of the thermoplastic packaging material 20 by a film separation station 54, which separates individual blanks of thermoplastic packaging material 57 from the strand of thermoplastic packaging material 20 that was previously connected to the supply roll.
  • the film separating station 54 can have a cutting knife, which is used to separate individual blanks of thermoplastic packaging material 57 from the roll with the supply roll connected strand of thermoplastic packaging material 20 is moved back and forth.
  • thermoplastic packaging material 20 A respective handle previously applied to the thermoplastic packaging material 20 via the application device 60 'is then formed as part of a respective cut of thermoplastic packaging material 57 or fixed to a respective cut of thermoplastic packaging material 57.
  • the respective cut of thermoplastic packaging material 57 is moved in the vertical direction through a gap formed between two immediately successive horizontal conveying devices 44, over the conveying plane designed for article 14 and at a respective compilation created on articles 14 or a respective combination of beverage containers 16.
  • a plurality of rods or wrapping rods which are guided in a circumferential manner and are not shown in the figures and are formed as part of the film packer 46, can be provided, which create the respective cut of thermoplastic packaging material 57 on the respective combination of articles 14 or the respective combination on beverage containers 16 .
  • the respective combination of articles 14 and the respective combination of beverage containers 16 subsequently leaves the film packer 46 and is fed via a horizontal conveyor device 44 in the transport direction TR to a packaging machine 48 which is designed as a shrink tunnel 49.
  • the respective combination of articles 14 or the respective combination of beverage containers 16 is moved together with the cut of thermoplastic packaging material 57 created by the film packer 46 through the packaging machine 48 or through the shrink tunnel 49, in which the respective cut of thermoplastic packaging material 57 with temperature is applied and shrunk onto the respective combination of articles 14 or onto the respective combination of beverage containers 16.
  • the respective combination of articles 14 or the respective combination of beverage containers 16 then leaves the packaging machine 48 or the shrink tunnel 49 as a container 10, in which container 10 the cutting of thermoplastic packaging material 57 depends on the combination on articles 14 or on the combination Beverage containers 16 is shrunk and holds the individual articles 14 or the individual beverage containers 16 together.
  • a blower can be arranged which applies a coolant flow to the blanks of thermoplastic packaging material 57 shrunk onto assemblies of articles 12 or the secondary packaging 56 shrunk onto assemblies of articles 12.
  • the containers 10 After leaving the packaging machine 48 or the shrinking tunnel 49 and after cooling, the containers 10 change to a horizontal conveyor 44 or to a further horizontal conveyor 44, which then moves the containers 10 in the direction of a grouping station and / or in the direction of a palletizing station.
  • an application device is shown, which can apply a handle to the container 10.
  • the application device 60 can be provided instead of or in addition to the application device already described and shown with reference to number 60 ', which application device 60' is located below a conveyor level formed by the horizontal conveyor devices 44.
  • the manufactured containers 10 do not include a handle.
  • the system 1 can be designed without an application device 60 or 60 '.
  • packaging conditions In order to be able to meet the high requirements for the shrinking or the application of the respective secondary packaging 56, several packaging conditions must be defined and / or determined before the system 1 is started up.
  • these packaging conditions are set by means of manual input by a user into a user interface provided by the control and / or regulating device S. It may be the case that a target temperature for the shrink tunnel 49 is specified by a user as the packaging condition. It may also be the case that a system 1 is delivered accordingly Figure 1
  • a setpoint temperature for the shrink tunnel 49 is already stored as a packaging condition in a control and / or regulating device S and is thus predefined by the control and / or regulating device S.
  • the input of the packaging conditions to be specified or to be defined via the user interface is complex in systems 1 known from the prior art and is often accompanied by errors.
  • the system 1 comprises an external memory 80 which is designed as a cloud memory 81 and on which the control and / or Control device S can access by means of an internet-based remote access.
  • Figure 1 reveals here that the packaging machine 48 or the shrink tunnel 49 is connected to the control and / or regulating device S.
  • the control and / or regulating device S is coupled to a server 70, via which server 70 the control and / or regulating device S can establish a connection to the external storage 80 or to the cloud storage 81.
  • the control and / or regulating device S is predefined by a user at least one of the aforementioned packaging conditions.
  • the control and / or regulating device S senses or records at least one of the packaging conditions described above and / or that at least one packaging condition is already stored on the control and / or regulating device S or that the control and / or Control device S is already known at least one packaging condition.
  • a large number of packaging programs are stored in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81, which packaging programs are linked to packaging conditions.
  • the control and / or regulating device S checks whether the respective packaging condition in the external memory 80 or is linked to packaging programs in the cloud storage 81. For example, it can be provided that information on a dimensioning of the respective container 10 to be produced by means of the packaging machine 48 or the respective shrink tunnel 49 is specified by the user as the first packaging condition.
  • the control and / or regulating device S can also detect a temperature level prevailing in the vicinity of the packaging machine 48 or the shrinking tunnel 49 as a second predetermined or determined packaging condition.
  • the control and / or regulating device S can then check whether at least one packaging program is linked to the first packaging condition and the second packaging condition in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81. If this is the case, the at least one packaging program can be called up from the external storage 80 or from the cloud storage 81 and used for the subsequent packaging process. In particular, a packaging program that takes all packaging conditions into account can be called up from the external memory 80 or from the cloud memory 81.
  • the plurality of packaging programs can be called up from the external memory 80 or cloud storage and shown to a user on a display, whereupon the respective user can choose from the plurality possible packaging programs.
  • the multiple packaging programs can have different process parameters, such as different speeds for the horizontal conveyor 44, which is already moving articles 14 having primary packaging through the shrink tunnel 49.
  • the different process parameters of the respective several packaging programs can be shown to the user on the display, so that the respective user can select a packaging program from the several packaging programs taking into account the respective process parameters shown on the display.
  • packaging conditions By linking packaging conditions to packaging programs in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81, it is only necessary that individual packaging conditions be specified and / or recorded, which is followed by the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81 one or more packaging programs that are possible for a packaging process and that take into account the packaging conditions can be called up. System 1 can therefore be started up in a shorter time compared to systems known from the prior art. The respective packaging process can be carried out with low susceptibility to errors by calling up packaging programs from the external memory 80 or from the cloud memory 81.
  • the system 1 also includes a sensor system or a monitoring means, shown in the figures with reference 90a, by means of which the control and / or regulating device S can check actual quality characteristics of secondary packaging 56 that has already been applied, or by means of which the control and / or Control device S can check whether secondary packaging 56 has been correctly applied to combinations of articles 14 or combinations of beverage containers 16.
  • a sensor system is also shown by means of which the control and / or regulating device S can determine packaging conditions.
  • the sensor system 90a or the monitoring means can, for example, comprise an optical detection device or a camera 90a and follow the packaging machine 48 or the shrink tunnel 49 in the transport direction 42 provided for the articles 14 or the beverage containers 16.
  • control and / or regulating device S recognizes in the course of the check that secondary packaging 56 has not been correctly applied to assemblies on articles 14 or assemblies on beverage containers 16 or that the containers 10 at least partially correspond to non-specified target quality characteristics, the controls Control and / or regulating device S, in conceivable embodiments, the respective packaging program called up from the external storage 80 or from the cloud storage 81, so that secondary packings 56 to be applied to assemblies on articles 14 or assemblies on beverage containers 16 meet the predetermined target Quality characteristics correspond or at least approximate the specified target quality characteristics.
  • the control and / or regulating device S can continue to carry out your data communication with the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81, individual process parameters of the respective packaging program being adapted taking into account the respective information recorded via the sensors 90a to 90h will. For example, it may be the case that a conveying speed of a horizontal conveying device 44 is increased temporarily or continuously.
  • the control and / or regulating device S can then transmit such an adaptation of individual process parameters to the external memory 80 or cloud memory 81, so that adapted packaging programs can be called up in the external memory 80 or cloud memory 81 as part of a regulation .
  • the further packaging device can also carry out data communication with the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81 and thereby open use the packaging program which has been adapted as part of the regulation and is stored in the external memory 80 or cloud memory 81 via the control and / or regulating device S.
  • the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81 thus enables data communication between different packaging devices, which different packaging devices are positioned at different locations, to optimize packaging programs.
  • Figure 1 Indicated by means of phantom lines, there is the possibility of communicating packaging conditions directly to the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81 via the control and / or regulating device S or to send them directly to the external memory 80 or to the cloud memory 81. This can be done accordingly Figure 1 there is a direct connection between the control and / or regulating device S and the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81. It may also be the case that packaging conditions are forwarded by the control and / or regulating device S via the server 70 to the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81.
  • a second server 70 ′ and a third server 70 ′′ are also provided, which access the external storage 80 or the cloud storage 81 and each call up packaging programs from the external storage 80 or from the cloud storage 81 and / or Packaging programs can be stored in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81.
  • the second server 70 'and the third server 70 can each be connected to at least one control and / or regulating device S, which is connected to a packaging machine 48 or is coupled to a shrink tunnel 49.
  • a plurality of control and / or regulating devices S can therefore access the shared external storage 80 or the shared cloud storage 81 via the servers 70, 70 ′ and 70 ′′, in the external storage 80 or in the cloud storage 81 store regulated or adapted packaging programs and call up packaging programs from the external storage 80 or from the cloud storage 81 which are required to carry out a respective packaging process.
  • the servers 70, 70 'and 70 "are thus located via the external storage 80 or cloud Storage 81 in exchange in order to call up packaging programs stored on the external storage 80 or on the cloud storage 81 and to improve them by depositing further regulated or adapted packaging programs.
  • a packaging program which is suitable for carrying out a packaging process in a first system 1 can thus be stored in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81, which is followed by a control and / or regulating device S of a second system 1 on the external memory 80 or accesses the cloud storage 81, retrieves the stored packaging program from the external storage 80 or from the cloud storage 81 and uses it for a packaging process carried out by the second system 1.
  • the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81 can only be accessed by means of an access identifier, or that access to the external memory 80 or the cloud memory 81 is password-protected.
  • the respective access can be permitted by a third party or the password necessary for access to the external 80 or the cloud storage 81 can be provided by a third party.
  • control and / or regulating device S and the external memory 80 or cloud memory 81 are thus formed as part of a common network operating according to the cloud computing principle.
  • FIG 2 shows a schematic view of a further embodiment of a system 1 according to the invention and clarifies individual steps as they occur in various embodiments of a method 100 according to the invention (cf. Figure 3 ) can be provided.
  • the system 1 from the exemplary embodiment according to Figure 2 has the different servers, which are also shown by reference with numbers 70, 70 'and 70 "and which are connected to the shared external storage 80 or the shared cloud storage 81.
  • S1 can be seen, S2, S3 and S4, which are coupled to the server 70 and control and / or regulate different modules or workstations shown with reference to numbers 210 to 280 and designed as part of the system 1.
  • the servers 70, 70 ', and 70 " and the shared external storage 80 and the shared cloud storage 81 are also in FIG Figure 2 Part of a common network based on the cloud computing principle. Access to the external storage 80 or to the cloud storage 81 is also in FIG Figure 2 password-protected or the need for approval or approval by a third party.
  • the control and / or regulating device S from the exemplary embodiment according to Figure 1 is in Figure 2 with reference to S1, a packaging machine designed as a shrink tunnel, which controls and regulates Figure 2 is shown schematically with reference to 250.
  • the control and / or regulating device S1 is also connected to a cardboard feeder 210, via which flat cardboard blanks, each forming a stand for a respective combination of articles 14 or a respective combination of beverage containers 16, into a transport path of the combinations of articles 14 or the combinations on beverage containers 16 can be introduced, so that a respective combination on articles 14 or a respective combination on Drinks container 16 moves onto a respective cardboard blank that forms a stand for articles 12 or drinks container 16.
  • a packaging condition can be given by information and / or details of the respective transport speed of the horizontal conveyor 44 Figure 1 be determined which horizontal conveyor 44 compilations of articles 14 or compilations of beverage containers 16 by the in Figure 2 only schematically indicated packaging machine 250 designed as a shrink tunnel. Since each such combination of articles 14 or each such combination of beverage containers 16 must be provided with a respective cut of cardboard before it enters the shrink tunnel 49, there is a speed of the supply of cardboard blanks forming a standing area via the cardboard feeder 210 and a transport speed a horizontal conveyor 44 moving the compilations of articles 14 or the compilations of beverage containers 16 through the packaging machine 250 designed as a shrink tunnel (cf. Figure 1 ) to coordinate with each other. Such a coordinated control and / or regulation takes place via the control and / or regulating device S1, which is connected both to the carton feed 210 and to the packaging machine 250 designed as a shrink tunnel.
  • Packaging programs are thus stored in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81, which contain process parameters relating to the transport speed of the horizontal conveying device 44, with process parameters coordinated therewith and relating to a respective conveying speed of the carton supply 210.
  • packaging programs can therefore be stored in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81, the process parameters of which are meaningfully linked to one another.
  • a first divider 220 is also connected to the first control and / or regulating device S1, which corresponding to individual assemblies of articles 14 is made up of circumferentially guided push rods from a large number of articles 14 moving in the mass flow Figure 1 can manufacture. Different speeds of movement for the all-round push rods can be caused by different Process parameters of packaging programs stored in the external memory 80 or cloud memory 81 are formed or specified.
  • the film separation station 54 shown via which blanks of thermoplastic packaging material 57 can be separated from the endless strand of thermoplastic packaging material, is shown in FIG Figure 2 only shown schematically with reference to number 230.
  • the film separation station 230 has a cutting knife which is designed to separate blanks of thermoplastic packaging material and is moved in an oscillating manner. Different movement speeds for the oscillating movement can be stored as different process parameters of different packaging programs in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81.
  • the packaging programs with the different movement speeds for the oscillating movement of the cutting knife can contain further process parameters in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81, which relate to a control of further work modules 210 to 280. Different process parameters provided for controlling the workstations 210 to 280 can thus be meaningfully linked to one another via the packaging programs.
  • FIG Figure 2 The already in Figure 1 Application device 60 or 60 'shown, via which a handle can be attached to the cut of thermoplastic packaging material 57 or to the secondary packaging 56, is shown in FIG Figure 2 only shown schematically with reference to number 240.
  • Different fastening positions, at which a respective handle can be attached to a respective secondary packaging, can be stored as different process parameters of different packaging programs in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81.
  • the different fastening positions for the respective position of the handle can be linked in the memory 80 or in the external memory 81 to further process parameters in the context of a respective packaging program.
  • a grouping station 260 is connected to the third control and / or regulating device S3, which the containers 10 produced in the packaging machine 250 designed as a shrink tunnel (cf. Figure 1 ) can rotate and / or move in order to form a palletizable layer of containers 10 from several containers 10 produced by means of the packaging machine 250 designed as a shrink tunnel.
  • the containers 10 produced in the packaging machine 250 designed as a shrink tunnel (cf. Figure 1 ) can rotate and / or move in order to form a palletizable layer of containers 10 from several containers 10 produced by means of the packaging machine 250 designed as a shrink tunnel.
  • Shrink tunnel-made packaging machine 250 manufactured containers 10 must be controlled as part of the grouping station 260 formed grippers in order to grasp respective containers 10 precisely and, if necessary, to shift and / or rotate them to form the palletizable layer.
  • Different movement curves of the grippers formed as part of the grouping station 260 can be stored as part of different packaging programs as different process parameters in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81.
  • the different movement curves can be stored as different process parameters with further process parameters in the external memory 80 or in the cloud storage 81 can be linked by different packaging programs, which further process parameters relate to a throughput of the packaging machine 250 provided for the manufacture of containers 10 and designed as a shrink tunnel.
  • the third control and / or regulating device S3 is connected to a palletizing station 270, which can place the palletable layer formed by the grouping station 260 on an assigned pallet or transfer it to an assigned pallet.
  • a movement of the palletizing station 270 is in this case to be matched to the respective frequency or to the respective throughput of layers of packs 10 capable of being palletized via the grouping station 260.
  • Different movements of the palletizing station 270 can be stored as different process parameters in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81. The different movements can be linked as different process parameters with other process parameters in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81 by different packaging programs.
  • a fourth control and / or regulating device S4 is connected to a pallet transport station 280, which can transport away a pallet with several layers of containers 10 stacked thereon.
  • a removal of pallets with a plurality of layers of containers 10 stacked thereon is to be matched to the respective frequency or to the respective throughput of layers of containers 10 deposited on the respective pallet via the palletizing station.
  • Different times for the removal can thus be stored as different process parameters in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81.
  • the different times for the removal can be linked as different process parameters with other process parameters in the external memory 80 or in the cloud memory 81 by different packaging programs.
  • Figure 2 also shows that the system 1 according to the embodiment Figure 1 a second server 70 'and a third server 70 ". Also with the second server 70' and the third server 70", several control and / or regulating devices S1, S2, S3 and / or S4 as well as several workstations 210 to 280 can be used stay in contact.
  • the external storage 80 or the cloud storage 81 is further configured as a common external storage 80 or as a shared cloud storage 81 for the servers 70, 70 'and 70 ".
  • FIG. 3 shows in the flowchart individual steps as can be provided in various embodiments of the method 100 according to the invention.
  • at least one packaging condition is determined by sensors.
  • the at least one packaging condition is specified via a user interface.
  • the at least one packaging condition is determined by sensors.
  • the method step shown with reference to number 120 is carried out, in which a packaging program adapted to the at least one predefined and / or sensed packaging condition is performed by an internet-based remote access from an external memory 80 or cloud storage 81 is accessed.
  • Process step 130 follows in time with process step 120.
  • the packaging program called up is carried out, in the context of which packaging program a packaging machine 48 applies a secondary packaging 56 to at least one article 14 that already has a primary packaging.
  • the secondary packaging 56 can be designed as a blank on thermoplastic packaging material 57, which is shrunk onto a combination of articles 14 or a combination of beverage containers 14 in the packaging process.
  • the result of the shrinking on successive secondary packs 56 can be monitored by sensors. If it is determined as part of the sensory monitoring that the result of the shrinking deviates from predetermined or desired criteria, a regulation can be initiated, in which regulation a control and / or regulating device S connected to the packaging machine 48 performs data communication with the external storage 80 or cloud storage 81 executes. This process step is described in Figure 3 referenced with paragraph 140.
  • Figure 4 shows a schematic view of an embodiment of a system 1 according to the invention and illustrates individual steps as they can be provided in various embodiments of a method 100 according to the invention.
  • the system 1 from the embodiment Figure 4 comprises a packaging device 9100 for producing containers 901 from articles 902 connected to one another at glue points 904 by an adhesive 903, at which glue points 904 the articles 902 in the finished container 901 directly and / or only abut one another at a distance from the adhesive 903.
  • the packaging device 9100 comprises at least one device 9110 with which at least some of the entirety of the adhesive points 904 of articles 902 to be connected to one another in a container 901 are provided with adhesive 903.
  • the adhesive 903 is preferably an adhesive and is located in the finished container 901 between the articles 902. This is only indicated by the reference symbol.
  • the adhesive 903 is preferably an adhesive point, each article 902 in the container 901 being connected to at least one adjacent article via at least one adhesive point.
  • the horizontal conveyors 9120 transport the articles 901 in the conveying direction 9121.
  • the article flow is divided into two article flows via a switch 500.
  • the articles 901 are transported through a drying device 9260/9261.
  • the articles 902 are dried in particular over hot air, which is applied to the article surface in particular via nozzles (not shown), in particular at at least one point of the articles 902, to which an adhesive is later applied.
  • Drying devices 9260 and drying device 9261 are alternatively present. Either there is a common dryer for all of the articles on conveyor 9121, or there are two dryers 9260 for the split streams.
  • the articles 902 are aligned via a carousel, whereby after the alignment the articles 902 are provided with adhesive dots via nozzles 9111.
  • the articles 902 are then brought together on a transport route 9230 for the at least partial curing of the adhesive.
  • the secondary packaging is the adhesive or glue.

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