Case Studies

Breakfast Pastry

Breakfast Pastry Packaging

Posted in Food and Beverage, Manufacturing Automation and Intelligence

Summary

DMC programmed the PLC and motion control software for a breakfast pastry packaging machine.

Packaging System

Packaging System

Maintenance Screen

Maintenance Screen

Operator Panel

Operator Panel

Configuration Screen

Configuration Screen

Solution

A packaging system, or cartoner, receives wrapped pastries from a wrapping machine and stacks them to the correct height for the set carton count. This carton package count can be changed quickly and easily from the user interface. The cartoner has "no product" and "no carton" fault detection, product high and low alarms, as well as other diagnostic tools. A CTC® flat panel touch screen is used as an HMI (Human Machine Interface). The screen displays the machine status, current PLC settings, servo parameter settings, and diagnostic information.

Customer Benefits

  • Increases production time with easy job changeover
  • Ease of use simplifies operator training
  • Facilitates maintenance and reduces down-time with on-line diagnostics

Technologies

  • Two Allen Bradley® 1394 motion controllers
  • Allen Bradley® SLC 5/03 PLC
  • Data Highway communication
  • CTC® color flat touch panel