The New X85 Conveyor System and Distributed Line Control

FlexLink AB

Category: Conveyor Systems | 15/04/2008 - 08:52:55

At Interpack, FlexLink will show how to meet today's requirements in production and packaging lines with the new X85 conveyor system and distributed line control.

X85 Conveyor System: Increased Capacity and Line Uptime

The speed of filling and packaging machines increase year by year and a high speed today is an ordinary speed tomorrow. FlexLink have developed the new X85 conveyor to allow high speed applications up to 120 m/min.

Meeting the demand to minimize planned and unplanned production stops, thus maximizing the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), the X85 conveyor is designed in detail to achieve a high uptime. Systematic testing and design engineering has resulted in noise level being reduced by more than half.

Benefits of Distributed Line Control

Through a dynamic control of the speed, a production line can be balanced in an easy, efficient way, safeguarding a pull through the line and avoiding unnecessary accumulation. The speed goes seamlessly up and down balancing the product flow between up- and downstream machines.

X85 Conveyor System Soft starts and stops and gentle transfers between products and handling equipments is a key to a high yield in production and packaging lines. By seamless control of the conveyor speed, products are handled gently, with maintained stability, but still at high line capacity. In addition, it contributes to fewer disturbances in the line.

The power consumption in today’s conveyor systems can be reduced significantly when running the system only according to the need of the downstream machine or process. This means that idle running systems belong to history. Speed controlled equipment is one of the major energy saving potentials of today.

FlexLink is a leading production logistics supplier - providing material and information flow management solutions to assembly and manufacturing industries. Based in Göteborg, Sweden, FlexLink has 675 employees, operates 28 sales units and is represented in 60 countries. In 2007, group turnover was MSEK 1,346 (145 M€).