There
are thousands of existing Form-Fill and Seal packaging machines,
often known as flow-wrap, flowrapper, flow-pack, flowrapper packing
machines in current use and many more second-hand used flow-wrap,
flowrapper, flow-packs in indefinite storage because they are
incapable of wrapping modern pre-printed film materials. Printed
film, often called registered film, film registration, PEC, or mark registration is
becoming more and more common as it provides a significantly higher
quality wrap. The cost of new packaging machinery which caters for
printed film is high and can still be troublesome on some low budget
machines. Older mechanically operated PEC registration is inaccurate
and wasteful, often taking many packs to pull into registration and
significantly wandering around a registration mark. The midasmotion
equipment is considerably more accurate and pulls into registration
almost immediately, wasting no bags or film material. Used,
second-hand and old flow wrappers, flow-wrappers and similar machines
can easily be converted to perform high performance registration
using this midasmotion designed equipment. Even new machines ordered
without print registration can be modified cheaply and easily.
Machinery manufactures use the system to add film registration to
their own basic design of packing machine. The basic registration PEC
system can be extended to form the complete control system for
flow-pack, flow-wrap, flowrapping packaging machinery. Packing
machines with fifteen or more fully synchronised axes and
sophisticated user interfaces driving complete packaging lines have
been built using this product. Large corporate end-users of packing
machinery to small family run bakeries have used this equipment at
the heart of their packing machinery and packaging lines. The kit can be fitted to almost any flowrapper such as those by Record, Ilapak, Ulma, PFM, Rose Foregrove, Tyyrell, Argosy, Delfin, GSP, TISOMI,Auto-Wrapper, Bradman Lake, Bosch and many more. The motion controller is designed and manufactured by midasmotion ltd with servo and inverters by Omron/Yaskawa. Encoders are by BEC.