Packaging machinery

This includes many packaging processes: fabrication, cleaning, filling, sealing, combining, labeling, overwrapping, palletizing.

Food, drug, and medical regulations require consistent seals on packages.

[3] Efforts at packaging line automation increasingly use programmable logic controllers[4] and robotics.

Choosing packaging machinery includes an assessment of technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floorspace, flexibility (change-over, materials, multiple products, etc.

), energy requirements, quality of outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, pharmaceuticals, etc.

This high pressure chemical washing puts special demands on machinery and control systems.