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Elmet offers a dose of automation for LSR sector

Plastics News

For Elmet Elastomere, K 2022 represents a chance to showcase its long-standing business partnerships and new liquid silicone manufacturing components, as well as a production cell for beverage lids that highlights both. Elmet, of Oftering, Austria, is a supplier of processing equipment for liquid silicone and production of LSR parts.

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Digital transformation tools improve plant sustainability and maintenance

Control Engineering

For mid-sized food and beverage facilities, unplanned downtime costs around $30,000 per hour. Let’s consider pneumatics maintenance in food and beverage processing, where compressed air is heavily used to actuate auxiliary and hygienic valves through discrete pilot valves or valve systems. That’s where predictive maintenance comes in.

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Motion control, ease of use, sustainability: Pack Expo Las Vegas 2023

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how advances in PC-based controls, motion controls and robotics for food and packaging are making automation for food and beverage packaging easier to automate. Related machine simulation is fit for digitalization. seconds) and KR IonTec robot can help for food processing. – Edited by Mark T.