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Packaging and transport at Logintern

The highlight of the special show on “Packaging and Transport” is a specially designed joint exhibit. This shows the continuously increasing interlinking of the various segments and illustrates the logistic flows and production processes, including associated conveying, storage and order-picking equipment and suitable information technologies like AutoID. The exhibit, which is implemented jointly by over 30 well-known companies (see below) vividly shows the necessary coupling between material flows and information systems using an example of five stations in a realistic industrial scenario. All the relevant process steps from incoming goods, production and stock management to order-picking and outgoing goods are demonstrated with examples of container flows and palleted load units. The exhibit uses various identification systems: Bar code and 2D systems show the present state of the art, whereas the use of radio frequency identification systems (RFID) allows a look into future technologies.

The exhibit starts by marking the logistic objects at the entry to the system using various technologies and clearly shows the possibilities offered by optical and radio-frequency identification technologies via identification at decision points. The heart of the exhibit is a portal robot, which performs all necessary handling processes and vividly presents the application of automatic identification technologies. The portal robot, which operates simultaneously with two robot arms in overlapping working areas, handles the containers between the processing stations and automatically assembles and pallets the containers.
In another special application, the robot automatically feeds goods to a flow-through rack. The rack has a cascade design to enable the containers to be placed on it. The goods pass from the rack to special containers using weight calculation and RFID-aided order-picking. The finished picked units receive an RFID shipping label and are palleted. Finally, the transverse sliding telescopic dolly handles the supply and disposal of the container buffers in the working area of the robot. At the same time, it moves the finished picked pallet units through an RFID gate to check their completeness. The load unit is then secured and weighed and the weight stored in the transponder on the pallet.
This and lots more information and answers to specific questions on “Packaging and Transport” are available at the LogIntern special show on stand 217 in hall 4A. The joint exhibit is supplemented with film presentations of intralogistics in the companies concerned and a series of presentations in the adjoining forum area.

The following companies are involved in the joint exhibit:
Accu-Sort Europe GmbH, AIM Deutschland e.V., AQS Logistic Systems GmbH, Bito-Lagertechnik Bittmann GmbH, Bluhm Systeme GmbH, Bosch Rexroth Mechatronics GmbH, Conteyor Multibag Systems NV, Crown Gabelstapler GmbH & Co. KG, deister electronic GmbH, Elmicron Dr. Harald Oehlmann GmbH, Feig Electronic GmbH, FlexLink Systems GmbH, Fraunhofer IML, Genkinger-Hubtex GmbH, GS1 Germany GmbH, Günzburger Steigtechnik GmbH, Hirsch Servo AG, Huf Tools GmbH, ITG Ident Technology Gera GmbH, KG van Vliet Licenties B.V., Meta-Regalbau GmbH & Co. KG, Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH, PSE Verpackungstechnologie GmbH, Ravas GmbH mobile Wiegetechnik, RFID im Blick, Ro-ber Industrieroboter GmbH, Scemtec Transponder Technology GmbH, Schoeller Arca Systems GmbH, Schreiner Logidata GmbH & Co. KG, Soehnle Professional GmbH + Co. KG, Vanderlande Industries GmbH, VVL e.V. and X-ident technology GmbH.

FachPack+PrintPack+LogIntern, the exhibition trio for packaging, expects a good 33,000 visitors from 25-27 September 2007 (2006: 33,056).