Switzerland Zünd booth at this year’s Fachpack show (Hall 8, Booth 518), will revolve around efficient automated cutting of a wide variety of packaging materials – from solid and corrugated cardboard to protective foam.
Zünd’s Aleksandar Lazic, segment manager packaging will show a wide range of cutting including its recently developed BHS150 loading/unloading system for use in industrial production environments. Zünd will also be exhibiting a G3 cutter configured for processing corrugated cardboard and packaging foam in tandem operation. The cutting system is also equipped with an automatic tool changer ARC, which can accommodate up to eight different bits.
Lazic explained, “Packaging manufacturers have to produce under constant time and margin pressures. Our modular cutting and material-handling solutions address their individual automation needs and make digital finishing even more efficient and profitable.”
Collaborative robot technology is an example of this. Zünd uses a robotic arm from Universal Robots to demonstrate a configuration suitable for industrial applications. The robot picks finished parts off a Zünd S3 cutting system and places them at predefined locations.
Smart production planning, control, and monitoring are critical for efficient manufacturing. The Zünd Cut Center ZCC user interface and workflow software provides the user with a comprehensive virtual control center for end-to-end digital finishing. “With new features such as even faster registration methods and a well laid-out dashboard that continually displays performance data of the cutting systems in operation, the latest version of ZCC, Version 3, is now even more flexible and user friendly,” said Lazic.
With the Zünd BHS150 Board Handling System, packaging manufacturers are able to exploit the full potential of fully automated production.
Zünd has been developing, manufacturing, and marketing modular cutting systems and is globally recognized as market leader since 1984, and its customer base consists of manufacturers and suppliers in many different industries, including graphics, packaging, garment and leather, as well as technical textile and composites.