Partnership produces press with added value

6 November 2013


Having identified market demand for a value-added flexo press incorporating increased automation, Focus Label Machinery chose Bosch Rexroth as a partner to provide a solution that, as well as increasing automation and consistency, would reduce energy consumption and provide increased flexibility for end-users.

Chris Nevin, Bosch Rexroth's designer says: "By incorporating intelligent servodrives, we were able to share load specific demands between motors and drives, ensuring the press operates at optimum efficiency and, as a result, reducing energy demands. It also meant that we could minimise setup input, allowing more consistent, repeatable results and provide end-users with greater flexibility to meet the demands of different customers, no matter what the substrate.

"By using our Indramotion for Printing software, in collaboration with the servodrive hardware, Focus Label is able to use commissioning visualisation to help customers' move Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) towards parameterisation instead of programming," he explains. "In-built screens further allow all the advanced control concepts to be visible alongside representative graphics, further easing the commissioning phase and simplifying fault finding.

"Using scalable hardware with intelligent software means lower cost hardware can be used for simple applications and high performance hardware can be included as and when required without having to completely rewrite the application code. For example, if a customer who has been printing using just four colours decides to upgrade to eight colours, this can be easily accommodated with the existing software. Also, from the customer's perspective the print stations themselves remain the same, allowing for efficient production process when manufacturing."

David Lee from Focus Label Machinery, comments: "For our customers the ability to serve and quickly adapt to a wide range of markets, whilst maintaining high levels of productivity, cost-efficiency and quality, is key. By incorporating Rexroth's servodrive technology with software that the company has developed specifically for the printing industry we have been able to create a value-added product that meets all of our customers' needs."



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