Out of the box – packing solution
A popular tyre tread manufacturing company had a unique problem of using up lubricating waste oil into the banbury mixer. The company was producing about 200 to 300 liters of lubricating oil from various machineries and instead of disposing the same , it was to be used as an additive in the banbury mixer, to make the final product to be extruded which is the tread. This oil could be used in multiples of 1 kg in every batch of mix. Therefore the requirement was to pack this waste oil into special pouches of 1 kg each. The plastic pouch is a special variety that is dissolvable in the mixer. The sealing of this pouch needed a special heating element which was customized. There would not be anybody manning this equipment and the machine would have to pick fill and seal the pouches automatically.
Conceiving the final machine from these inputs, we have designed a very special purpose machine that picks the cover, fill the waste oil to the required quantity and seals the same within and accuracy of 2-3 gms. The machine which is seen above has been in operation at this plant since the last 2 years, doing its job without any hiccups. The machine is electro- pneumatically controlled with very fine mechanical elements to ensure every pouch is picked up with precision, filled to the required accuracy and then sealed and discharged. While the electronics is a combination of an embedded system for weighing and a PLC for the rest of the control, operated very efficiently to control the pneumatics and mechanical system. The machine packs about one pouch every minute which has been the requirement of the client.