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Flexible Paper Packaging
Flexible Paper Packaging Machine - Will-Pemco, Inc.
Will-Pemco, the global leader in ream wrapping machines, introduced their highly acclaimed HS machine. Its success reflects a fateful decision seven years earlier when they broke with convention to choose the Berkeley Series-32 Machine Controller.
In 1989, Will-Pemco faced the classic challenge for flexible packaging machine builders—how to develop a new machine to package a wide range of product sizes, reduce scrap, improve registration accuracy, minimize down time, and of course increase throughput.
A traditional control solution would have dictated mechanical cams, intelligent servo drives, a separate registration control system, and a PLC. Upgrades or modifications to the control components would be routinely accompanied by extensive software changes and re-training of maintenance personnel. With several programming languages, and no accountable source of support for integrating the software and hardware elements, it presented a daunting hardware and software development challenge for Will-Pemco.
Recognizing the true costs of a component based approach, Will-Pemco selected the Berkeley Series-32 Integrated Machine Controller. By selecting the most powerful machine control solution in the industry, they avoided two of the major pitfalls of modern automation—reliably integrating controls components and supporting their evolution over a long machine life.
Will-Pemco leveraged that key decision to bring the new HS machines to market. Berkeley's newest Series-64 Machine Controller boosted the machine performance, while allowing Will-Penco engineers to build on the control software developed for the Series-32—dramatically reducing the time to market and software costs. Berkeley's commitment to complete software compatibility enabled Will-Pemco to preserve their original software investment.
Isn't that the way technology is supposed to work?
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