G.d S.p.a.

Maria Eleonora Cesarini

Luca Federici

Massimo Sartoni

Gaetano De Pietra

Sergio Morelli

Franco Spisni

Eugenio Navacchia

Luca Vecchietti

Vladi Negrini

Fulvio Pastore

Lorenzo Selmi

A diagnostic method for analysing the operation of an automatic machine which processes products in the tobacco industry includes the following steps: introducing into the machine an endoscopic probe whose shape and size correspond to the shape and size of the products the machine is designed to process and which the machine processes as if it were a real product. During processing in the machine, the probe acquires data through a sensor of its own. The method also includes determining the positions adopted by the probe while it is being processed in the machine and associating them with the data acquired by the probe while it is being processed in the machine.

Diagnostic method for analyzing the operation of an automatic machine which processes products in the tobacco industry

A coupling device for coupling a component to an article includes a first retaining member that retains the component, a second retaining member that retains the article, a movement system for moving the first retaining member and the second retaining member between a non-operating position where the component and the article are spaced apart from one another, and an operating position where the component and the article are in a coupling position, and a detection system for detecting the positioning of the component on the first retaining member. The detection system includes an image detector device for capturing at least one image of the component when the component is retained by the first retaining member, and a processing unit provided for analysing the image captured by the image detector device and verifying if the component is retained on the first retaining member in a predefined position.

Coupling device for coupling a component to an article

Diagnostic method for analysing the operation of an automatic machine which processes products in the tobacco industry

A diagnostic method for analysing the operation of at least part of a production line in the tobacco industry includes feeding through the line a probe having the shape of a smokers' article and provided with an electronic card configured to acquire one or more parameters; the method includes a step of activating the probe with the possibility of temporally synchronizing the data acquired by the probe with the data acquired by the line at the same time.

Diagnostic method for analysing the operation of at least part of a production line in the tobacco industry

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Maria Eleonora Cesarini