Packaging machine

Packaging machinery is used throughout all packaging operations, involving primary packages to distribution packs. This includes many packaging processes: fabrication, cleaning, filling, sealing, combining, labeling, overwrapping, palletizing, etc.Bakery goods shrinkwrapped by shrink film, heat sealer and heat tunnel on roller conveyorHigh speed conveyor with stationary bar code scanner for sortingLabel printer applicator applying a label to adjacent panels of a corrugated box.Robots used to palletize breadAutomatic stretch wrapping machineEquipment used for making molded pulp components and molding packaging from strawA semi-automatic rotary arm stretch wrapperEquipment for thermoforming packages at NASAAutomated labeling line for wine bottlesShrink film wrap being applied on PET bottlesFilling machinery for bag-in-boxAutomatic Strapping Machine Packaging machinery is used throughout all packaging operations, involving primary packages to distribution packs. This includes many packaging processes: fabrication, cleaning, filling, sealing, combining, labeling, overwrapping, palletizing, etc. Some packaging operations cannot be accomplished without packaging equipment. For example many packages include heat seals to prepare or seal a package. Heat sealers are needed, even in slow labor-intensive operations. With many industries, the effectiveness of the heat seal is critical to product safety so the heat sealing operation must closely controlled with documented Verification and validation protocols. Food, drug, and medical regulations require consistent seals on packages. Proper equipment is needed. Packaging operations can be designed for variable package sizes and forms or for handling only uniform packages, where the machinery or packaging line is adjustable between production runs. Certainly slow manual operations allow workers to be flexible to package variation but also some automated lines can handle significant random variation. Moving from manual operations, through semi-automatic operations to fully automated packaging lines offers advantages to some packagers. Other than the obvious control of labor costs, quality can be more consistent, and throughput can be optimized. Efforts at packaging line automation increasingly use programmable logic controllers and robotics.