Automation Canada Quarterly Volume 2 Issue 3 - 6

Leading Packaging

Machine Builder Reduces
Machine Engineering Time

Challenges
Often, for their customized line solutions,
Bosch Packaging Goa, India is required to design a Product Distribution System (PDS) to
feed product into down-stream wrapper lines.
The time required to engineer these systems is
a significant factor impacting project delivery
schedules. The biggest challenge is to have a
common engineered solution that can be reused for various similar projects.
The challenges imposed due to the variability of customized project demands include:

Variation in Line Speed

Bosch Packaging is a global provider of packaging solutions in the food and pharmaceutical
segment. Bosch Packaging, Goa, India supplies
horizontal form fill and seal machines primarily to the bakery & confectionery industries,
and plans to gratify the omnipresent and evergrowing demands from the Indian packaging
market through Bosch Packaging's Goa facility
with its fully equipped R&D facility, engineering and after-sale support, and sophisticated
assembly shop floor to build machines with
advanced technology.
Accounting its wide range of products &
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CANADIAN AUTOMATION

global expertise, Bosch Packaging, Goa, India
serves customers' demands by providing complete line solutions, customized machinery and
equipment which includes:
* Product feeding systems
* Flow wrapper Lines
* Collating machinery
With an extremely proficient engineering
team, Bosch Packaging, Goa, India counters its
constantly faced challenges, such as making extensive engineering efforts for delivering line solutions and meeting the tight delivery schedules
on large projects, to accomplish their set goals.

* Variation in total number of downstream
flow wraps
* Variation in each of flow wrap speed and
dynamics of flow wrap
* Protection of IP while automation applied
to PDS solution
From similar requirements in the past, addressed by their previous automation solution
company, Bosch Packaging, Goa, India found
that while the engineering time spent for each
project was huge, maintaining consistency in
the application code over various projects was
also a challenge, and thereby impacted maintainability.
Another area of concern was the high installation time. This drawback occurred due to the
limitation of handling data over higher number of nodes (drives) which existed in the
MODBUS communication network.

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