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Packaging machine having an improved adjustment function

US11485534B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller Se & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Elmar Ehrmann · Altusried, DE
Claus Botzenhardt · Kempten, DE
Christian Lau · Heimenkirch, DE
Natalie Schmid · Sonthofen, DE
Florian Felch · Durach, DE
Thorsten Remmele · Westerheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 9, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B2219/45048
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus comprising a packaging machine, which comprises a control unit having a process parameter generator designed to determine specific process parameters for a production process of the packaging machine. The control unit of the packaging machine also comprises a recipe generator for an adjustment process of the packaging machine preceding the production process or can be connected to a recipe generator of the apparatus, which generator is designed as a separate unit. The respective recipe generator comprises a set of rules for determining recipe variables for the adjustment process of the packaging machine and is designed to generate the recipe variables with reference to a plurality of data and to form therefrom a recipe data set for the adjustment process of the packaging machine. A method for using the apparatus is also included.

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