MESSUNG SERVO & MOTION CONTROL AUTOMATION FOR VFFS MACHINES
Vertical Form, Fill, and Seal (VFFS) machines are used in the consumer products industry for a wide variety of packaging applications. Various products like salt, tea, sugar, spices, snack foods, wafers, detergent, candies, milk, sauce, etc. are placed into formed pouches and then sealed. The pouch material is flexible and typically heat-sealable plastic. Paper is also used and sealed by glue. The VFFS machine can be divided into four functional areas: 1. Mixing, Weighing, Dosing 2. Forming 3. Feeding, Aligning, Registration 4. Closing, Sealing, Cutting. Typically, Fully automatic VFFS machines require limited operator intervention. The operator need only replenish product...