Make your packaging machines sustainable and efficient

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Speed up your packaging machine design with virtual simulation and digital design tools. In this webinar, see how the new Lexium™ MC12 multi-carrier, coupled with the digital twin technology is revolutionising machine design.

Building sustainable and efficient smart packaging machines with EcoStruxure

More than ever before, the packaging industry is affected by the rapid surge in e-commerce and the changing consumer preferences for customisation and environment protection. Digitisation, robotics, next-generation transport systems, and digital twin technologies enable to bring unprecedented innovations within the packaging machines industry, boosting productivity, flexibility, and sustainability while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). Schneider Electric can support you on this transition to the next generation of sustainable packaging machinery.

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Smart design and engineering

Sustainability, cost pressure, and an ever-increasing speed of change and customisation are the key challenges each packaging machine OEM engineer needs to deal with. Fortunately, there are some solutions to those challenges: digital twin and digital thread technologies have the advantage of improving the efficiency and sustainability of your packaging machine design. In short, using our automated engineering and simulation capabilities can help you shorten your design phase by about 30%.

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Smart commissioning and operation

Digitisation-enabled analytics now allow the OEM machine builder to simplify device commissioning through the automatic discovery and integration of devices in an open automation architecture to improve operational and support efficiency by up to 40%.

Save time with easy drive commissioning using web visualisation and mobile device support.
Achieve greater machine integration with the use of open standards and protocols like PackML, Weihenstephan, Ethernet, and OPC Unified Architecture.
Ensure consistency and transparency from line control down to the field device for accurate overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) calculations.
Improve machine integration in the plant by leveraging the complete offer from Schneider Electric up to a MES solution powered by Aveva.

Smart maintenance and remote services

Reduce your time for corrective actions by up to 50% and create new business with your end customers on a recurring base.
Save time and money by empowering the operator with augmented reality applications and find information faster with immediate, relevant access in the field.
Localise and track machines. Assign them to documentation, history, and task management.
Monitor machine performance with individual dashboards, predict machine maintenance, and receive notifications if needed.
Use troubleshooting and fix the machines with cloud-based software tools.
Benefit from secure remote access to data generated by machines or devices as if you were on site.

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How can digital transformation and automation in the food and industrial packaging machines industry speed up the transition to a sustainable future?

Schneider Electric helps make the operations of the packaging industry innovative and sustainable through smart, secure, and high-performing food and industrial packaging machines that improve productivity, flexibility, and safety throughout their lifecycle.

As an industrial technology leader with IoT and data analytics expertise, Schneider Electric promises to bring unprecedented flexibility and automation to your packaging machines through our automated engineering and simulation capabilities that improve efficiency and cost and reduce carbon footprint.

Discover EcoStruxure Machine, our IoT-enabled system that helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), machine integrators, and manufacturers address the sustainability challenge by using cloud-based technologies and digital services for better product connectivity and edge control within the premises.

Machine builders looking to design packaging machines in many different applications rely on Schneider Electric for Tested, Validated, Documented Architectures (TVDAs) to offer their customers smarter packaging with better control and optimisation, operational profitability, and safety.

Our new next-generation transport system, Lexium™ MC12 multi carrier, coupled with the digital twin technology, empowers you with virtual simulation and digital design tools for faster customer delivery.

Explore how to simplify your engineering process using architecture and engineering intelligence, flexible and scalable machine control platforms, and customisation and services for your simple, complex packaging machines and robots.

Our scalable solutions simplify the machine commissioning using web visualisation and mobile device support to deliver smart, high-performance packaging machinery with more output and less footprint.

Our digitised and predictive maintenance services enable machine builders to support their customers with cloud-based software tools and augmented reality applications to avoid downtime by faster access and resolution.

Schneider Electric helps machine builders overcome the critical sustainability challenges by offering to develop automation solutions architecture for food and industrial packaging machines with superior machine control design, reduced time-to-market, and digitised sales support.

The future of sustainable and efficient packaging machines