Method for operating a packaging machine

US11340600B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ROVEMA GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Volker Dersch · Sankt Wendel, DE
• Peter Trepke · Romrod, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 9, 2019
• Grant date: May 24, 2022
• Expiry date: May 18, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/45048
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for operating a packaging machine having at least one electric drive motor, the drive motor driving at least one functional unit of the packaging machine in a program-controlled manner when producing packaging using the following steps: (a) loading a parameter set into the control of the packaging machine, the parameter set containing at least one load parameter which limits the torque or the current consumption of the drive motor to a maximum when producing packaging; (b) operating the packaging machine for producing packaging, the maximally occurring actual value of the torque mustered at the drive motor or the current consumed by the drive motor being measured during operation; (c) determining a new load parameter as a function of the maximum actual value; (d) saving the new load parameter in a parameter set allocated to the packaging to be produced.