Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Lorenzo Tacconi

Paolo Scarabelli

Claudio Donati

Antonio Melandri

Matteo Gazzadi Poggioli

Giorgio Galavotti

Filippo Serafini

Rickard Norenstam

Stefano Vicini

Marco Melandri

Paolo Zanichelli

Fabio Zerri

Frank-Mario Schellenberg

Mattia Verasani

Antonio Marsella

A system for controlling a manufacturing process for packaging units is disclosed, the packaging units are manufactured from a packaging material comprising machine readable identifiers. A control unit associates the identifiers with corresponding data images of the packaging units, wherein for a first process application to manipulate packaging material based on a first set of process parameters, the control unit is configured to store at least part of the first set of process parameters to the associated data image, wherein for a subsequent second process application to manipulate said packaging material, read at least part of the first set of process parameters stored in said associated data image to control the second process application based on at least part of the first set of process parameters.

System and method for controlling a manufacturing process for packaging units

A Packaging System having a Packaging Line designed to produce Packaged Consumer Products; a Marking System designed to mark individual or packs of Packaged Consumer Products with graphical information, and a Line Controller designed to control the Packaging Line and the Marking System. The Marking System includes: Marking Equipment and a Marking Server. The Marking Server is designed to receive Production Batch Data and associated Template Identifier(s); and a Marking Device Controller. The Line Controller is designed to: receive Production Batch Data and generate Marking Instruction(s) for associated Marking Device Controller(s). The Marking Device Controller is designed to: receive Marking Instruction(s) from the Line Controller, fetch out from a Repository in the Marking Server stored Mark Layout Template(s) and Production Batch Data, and generate Marking Command(s) for Marking Device(s) controlled by the Marking Device Controller based on fetched Mark Layout Template(s) and Production Batch Data.

Packaging system with marking system including a marking server to store templates

A packaging system includes a packaging line comprising a filling machine for producing sealed packages containing food product and downstream distribution equipment connected by conveyors and each including a control system, a line controller for managing configuration, communication and control of the packaging line, a common overhead message display which displays visual information on the operation of the equipment, and a communication network for connecting the line controller to the equipment. The line controller includes a line configurator which reduces and secures effective line installation, start up and tuning at the manufacturing floor via 'plug and play', a line commander which optimizes line performance and product flows during production, a recipe manager which accommodates production flexibility by improving 'easy to use' line resources and material, and a conveyor optimizer which optimizes product transportation along the conveyors.

Integrated packaging system architecture

A sheet material for producing packages of food products and having a succession of optically detectable register mark; each mark, has a first and a second segment parallel to each other and perpendicular to a feed direction of the material, and a sloping segment interposed between the parallel segments, so as to define a broken, to substantially Z-shaped line, which may be used to determine the position of the material both in the feed direction and in a perpendicular direction.

Sheet material for producing packages of food products, and packages made of such material

There is described a packaging machine () for producing sealed packages () of a pourable food product from a strip () of heat-seal sheet packaging material. The packaging material () has a number of photocells (), which are programmable externally as regards their setting parameters, are positioned facing the strip () of packaging material to detect optically detectable elements on the strip, and have setting means (). The packaging machine () also has a control unit () connected to the photocells () and having enabling means () for enabling the setting means of a specific photocell (), data downloading means () for downloading off the specific photocell () the setting parameters of the photocell, and data uploading means () for uploading onto the other photocells () setting parameters calculated as a function of the setting parameters downloaded off the specific photocell ().

Packaging machine for continuously producing sealed packages

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Modena, Italy

Lorenzo Tacconi