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07.07.2014 Bag discharge system for powder coatings uses barcode technology

 

LaborSave (Ayal Robotics and Engineering Ltd) of Israel, with European head office in Germany, recently installed an automatic sack cutting and emptying system with an integrated barcode reader, dedusting unit and parallel conveyor belts at an Italian plant of one Europe’s largest powder coating manufacturers. 

The Italian facility develops powder coatings in multiple colours, and uses a batch system on the production floor. The raw materials warehouse prepares each individual batch, and loads all of the materials for the batch in a pile. The work staff would then dump all of the raw materials in the pile into a mobile mixer for production. LaborSave provided a solution that took into account that the workflow was based on batches. A further problem was that, while 80% of the material was suitable for LaborSave (sacks of raw materials), 20% of the raw material was not in sacks. The system also needed to be explosion proof according to ATEX standards.  www.laborsave.com 

The LaborSave installation fitted with barcode readers at the Italian powder coatings factory

 

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