TME 採購經理 Carlo Lamantea 解釋道：「單件包裝的應用領域每年都在增加，而且不侷限於食品行業。」 「其應用範圍還擴展到了塑膠組裝、製藥行業、醫療行業、化妝品行業和其他許多行業。」 TME 的膠囊包裝系統 HTS 的設計，能夠擴大生產能力並滿足最高的效率標準。
輕鬆整合伺服驅動器
除了每分鐘生產 280 至 1200 個膠囊外，「這個系統還可以處理所有膠囊型號和不同的材料，例如塑膠、可堆肥材料和鋁。」Lamantea 補充說。「這表示咖啡以及粉狀飲料、茶和藥用茶都可以進行包裝。」 TME 選擇 Festo 作為合作夥伴，是因為 Festo 提供了一系列新型無刷式伺服系統 CMMT 和 EMMT，能夠與基於 EtherCAT 技術的 TME 控制平台無縫整合。
Festo 無刷式馬達驅動的螺旋輸送系統，可對咖啡進行分揀和密封。Festo 應用業務工程師 Gabriele Barbarini 解釋說：「我們的目標是採用市場上最好的技術解決方案，提高（高端）膠囊包裝機 HTS 的生產能力。」
Energy saving webinars
"The support from Festo support has also extended to the development of electric automation components. This has enabled us to produce high-performance machines that are also characterised by saving energy consumption. The machines from TME stand for durability and sustainability and take individual customer requirements into account," emphasises Purchasing Manager Lamantea. "Festo started by advising us on pneumatic solutions, and then also supported us over time with the development of the best mechatronic solutions for our HTS production lines. They have provided us with support during face-to-face meetings, but also in the form of many webinars on topics such as energy saving and machine safety, which the experts from Festo have organised over the last two years."
It is worth noting that TME has had an automatic shutdown system for production breaks in place in its plants for more than twenty years. "This allows us to recover the energy that is generated by the brushless motors during braking and feed it into the common energy bus and, thanks to Festo, optimise compressed air management," explains sales expert Alice Magnani.
Energy efficiency module MSE6
"TME has integrated the new modules of MSE6 series into some of its projects specifically for compressed air optimisation," confirms Festo Project Engineer Gabriele Barbarini. That is how solutions have been found that can be seamlessly integrated into the compressed air preparation units, allowing consumption to be monitored and energy wastage to be reduced.