Motion Control for for Cardboard Boxes Tray-forming Machine


Jennings Development Intenational Ltd (JDI), a New Zealand based company, manufactures a range of Tray-forming equipment to assemble corrugated cardboard boxes using holt melt adhesive. Tray-formers have been supplied to customers in New Zealand, USA, South America, and Australia. CNC Design Ltd New Zealand and JDI have been collaborating on a Siemens Masterdrive Solution to meet the needs of the changing international market place for Tray-formers.

The machine uses a high performance folding and gluing process and the entire machine is easily transportable between packing lines. For this reason the control, operator panel and drive system were required to fit into a compact cabinet mounted on the machine. The Siemens C7 operator panel with integrated PLC fulfilled these requirement admirably as it is mounted in the cabinet door with minimal space requirement on the backplane of the cabinet for remote I/O.

A hight performance Masterdrive MC servodrive system was selected along with FM352 cam control module. The cam controller enable glue application precisely while the carton blang is travelling at high speed.

The powerfull PROFIBUS network interface to the Masterdrive MC was ideal for the complicated block change on the fly functions necessary to achieve optimum production rates.