Modular Linear Filling Machine With Independent Supply Units
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing linear filling machines are inflexible and difficult to reconfigure for different application processes, limiting their adaptability to changing product types and filling requirements in industries like beverage and milk processing.
Innovation Solution
A linear filling machine designed with replaceable machine modules, each equipped with independent electric and pneumatic supply units, allowing for easy reconfiguration and integration of new modules to adapt to various filling processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If linear filling machines are designed with fixed structural arrangements, then they can be optimised for specific application processes, but they become difficult to reconfigure for different application processes
Solution Approach 1:
The filling machine is divided into multiple independent machine modules (inlet station module, treatment station module, filling station module, outlet station module) that can be independently configured and replaced. Each module contains its own electric supply unit and media supply unit, enabling flexible reconfiguration for different application processes while maintaining reliable operation for each specific function.
2Adaptability or versatility
If machine modules are made replaceable with independent supply units, then adaptability to different application processes is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each machine module is designed as a universal, self-contained unit with standardized interfaces that can perform multiple functions. The modules include integrated electric supply units and media supply units with standardized connections, allowing the same module type to serve different purposes through configuration rather than requiring completely different hardware for each application.
3Ease of repair
If electric supply units and pneumatic supply units are spatially separated, then ease of maintenance is improved, but machine module size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The electric supply units and pneumatic supply units are arranged on opposite sides of the machine module in the transverse direction, utilizing the third dimension (depth/thickness) of the module. This spatial separation provides maintenance personnel with access to both supply systems without requiring disassembly of the entire module, while keeping the overall footprint compact.
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AI summary
A linear filling machine for filling containers that are transported in groups along a linear conveying path has a plurality of machine sections following one another along the conveying path. The respective machine sections form an input station for receiving the containers, a handling station for treating the containers, a filling station for filling the containers, and a discharge station for delivering the containers. The machine sections are exchangeable machine modules, wherein each machine module forms an independent functional unit with a power supply unit and a media supply unit, in particular a pneumatic medium supply unit. The supply units are arranged spatially separate from one another, with the power supply unit arranged on a first side and the pneumatic medium supply unit arranged on an opposite, second side of the machine module.