CC-500

Carton Check and Defect
Detection System

Elevate your production quality with the CC-500, a cutting-edge defect detection system designed to ensure flawless carton output through comprehensive inspection.

Validate 100%
Print Quality

Product Width
up to 250 mm

Inspection Speed
at 150 m/min

The CC-500 delivers unparalleled defect detection for cartons by integrating advanced imaging and processing technology to inspect a variety of materials at speeds up to 150 meters per minute.

This system is adept at identifying a wide range of print defects and substrate inconsistencies, ensuring that only perfect cartons reach your customers.

Folding Cartons

Paper & Corrugated Material

  • Ensures 100% inspection of print, embossing, and foil on each carton, significantly reducing the risk of customer rejections.
  • Advanced defect classification and real-time alerts allow for immediate correction, minimizing waste.
  • Integrates seamlessly with existing production lines, enhancing overall efficiency without compromising on throughput.
  • User-friendly interface and automated setup reduce operator workload and training time.
  • Real-time data and image capture of defects enhance operator decision-making.
  • Customizable reports and analytics support continuous improvement and operational oversight.
  • High-resolution line scan cameras combined with LED illumination capture minute defects in real time.
  • Flexible system configuration accommodates a range of substrate types and sizes.
  • Robust data management tools ensure traceability and consistency across production batches.
 
  • High-Resolution Inspection Cameras: Deploy the latest line scan technology for sharp imaging and accurate defect detection.
  • Automated Defect Classification and Response: Sophisticated software algorithms classify defects and automatically guide response actions, such as ejecting defective sheets.
  • Flexible Material Handling: Accommodates various materials, including paper, paperboard, plastic, and foils, ensuring versatility across packaging applications.
  • Advanced Reporting Capabilities: Generates detailed defect reports and integrates with enterprise systems for comprehensive quality management.
  • Robust System Integration: Seamlessly connects with in-line equipment like roll splicers and foil stampers, creating a unified production flow.
  • Customizable Inspection Sensitivity: Settings can be adjusted for different products or customer requirements, ensuring tailored inspection processes.
  • Max Speed: 150 m/min for continuous inspection
  • Material Width: Up to 250 mm
  • Inspection Accuracy: Detects defects as small as 0.18 mm
  • System Flexibility: Supports integration with multiple camera views for comprehensive coverage
  • Connectivity: Includes options for network integration and remote diagnostics

The CC-500 Compact Carton Former revolutionizes the way retail-ready packaging is produced by integrating a seamless process flow that ensures efficiency and consistency.

  • SF500 Smart Feeder: Utilizes high-performance brushless servo motors managed by a leading-edge motion controller, enabling precise product feeding at high speeds. This feeder is designed for continuous operation and supports quick setup changes through its user-friendly touchscreen interface.
  • VC500-12 Vacuum Conveyor: Ensures stable and secure transportation of materials through the inspection zone with an advanced vacuum system that adjusts to accommodate different substrate thicknesses and widths.
  • Vision Camera Inspection System: Employs state-of-the-art high-resolution line scan cameras to capture detailed images of each carton. This system uses advanced image processing algorithms to detect a wide range of defects, such as color deviation, streaks, and misregistration.
  • LED Illumination System: Provides optimal lighting conditions for the inspection cameras, enhancing defect detection by improving contrast and clarity in the captured images.
  • Delta-X Tracker: Acts as the central data management system, logging all detected defects and managing quality control processes. It provides real-time feedback and detailed reports, helping to ensure consistent product quality and enabling quick response to any issues.
  • SQL Database Integration: All inspection data, including images and defect classifications, are stored in an SQL database, allowing for easy retrieval and analysis. This system supports historical data analysis and real-time decision-making.
  • Emerald 2500 Configurable System Motion Controller: Controls the entire inspection system, ensuring synchronized operation between feeding, inspection, and output. It facilitates the integration of the CC-500 with existing production lines, maintaining high throughput and operational efficiency.
  • HMI10 Human Machine Interface: Provides an intuitive user interface for system operators, allowing easy control over the inspection process and quick access to system settings and diagnostics. It supports multi-language functionality and is designed for ease of use to minimize operator training requirements.

The CC-500 Compact Carton Former is equipped with cutting-edge technologies that enhance its operational capabilities, ensuring precise, efficient, and reliable carton formation. By incorporating advanced automation, real-time monitoring, and quality assurance features, the CC-500 sets a new benchmark in packaging technology. Here’s a closer look at the state-of-the-art technologies integrated into the CC-500 system.

FF Series

Primary Friction Feeder

The FF Series Friction Feeder can handle the lightest paper and is equally at home when dealing with heavy stock materials when called upon.

The VSC-1000 Hish-Speed Vision Scan system can manage up to 8 camera inputs with 4 parallel channels, allowing asynchronous management with real-time hardware.
VSC-1000

Vision Scan System

The VSC-1000 Vision System offers state-of-the-art vision scanning and real-time image processing, ideal for high-speed production environments.

VC Series

Vacuum Transport

High torque servo driven vacuum transport conveys products at accurate speeds and controls product placement with 8 selectable vacuum zones. 

BA-250

High-Speed Pack-Out

Fulfillment System

Maximize efficiency with the BA-250, a fully automated pack-out fulfillment system designed for wrapping, inline batching, bundling, and labeling, enhancing throughput up to 2,000 bundles per hour.

Camera-Based
Aggregation

Bundle Verified
by Weight

Automated
Bundle Labeling

The BA-250 Pack-Out Fulfillment System is Pack-Smart’s state-of-the-art solution for inline batching, wrapping, and aggregate labeling, delivering up to 2,000 finished bundles per hour with precision and reliability.

This advanced system seamlessly integrates key functions, including batching, wrapping, scanning, weighing, and quality assurance. Each bundle, case, and pallet is labeled with pinpoint accuracy, streamlining workflow efficiency and ensuring end-to-end traceability for high-demand production environments.

  • Fast Moving Consumer Goods

  • Pharmaceutical Products

  • Open Loop Cards

  • Closed Loop Cards

  • Membership & Loyalty

  • Serialized Products

  • Enhances on-time delivery with integrated packaging processes.
  • Produces up to 2,000 bundles per hour, accelerating market readiness.
  • Fully automated system reduces the need for manual intervention, lowering labor costs.
  • Incorporates a QA station that rejects and remakes bad products on the fly.
  • Ensures 100% product integrity and quality with advanced scanning and weighing technologies.
  • Automated labeling system maintains accuracy and consistency across all bundles.
  • Utilizes camera-based aggregation to ensure precise product grouping.
  • Weight verification of each bundle confirms the correct number of products before packaging.
  • Delta-X control system offers real-time data traceability and advanced reporting capabilities.
 
  • High-speed vibratory bowl for product alignment
  • Redundant buffering systems to maintain continuous operation
  • Advanced rotary motion pick and place for precise product placement
  • Integrated weighing and scanning for accurate quality control
  • Servo-controlled system for flexible and efficient operation
  • Capacity: Up to 2000 finished bundles per hour
  • Label placement accuracy: ±1 mm
  • Rejection rate: Less than 2%
  • Power requirements: 230 V AC, 3 phase, max 30 A

The BA-250 exemplifies streamlined operational excellence, featuring a process flow that optimizes speed and precision. From material handling to the final inspection, each stage of the process is meticulously engineered to enhance productivity and ensure the highest quality output.

  • VF900 Vibratory Bowl Feeder: Utilizes vibration technology to orient and sort products efficiently, ensuring they are correctly sequenced for packaging.
  • Axode Camera System: Scans and verifies each product for correct sequence and range, enabling accurate tracking and initiation of variable print and apply label content.
  • Transport Conveyor: Moves the verified products into the batching module, maintaining a consistent flow to optimize the handling process.
  • BC20-03 Batching Module: Collects products and organizes them into specified counts or sequences, preparing them for bundling.
  • Alma Flow Wrapper: Encases grouped products in a protective wrap, securing them for the labeling process.
  • PAP3000 Print and Apply Labeler: Automatically generates and applies labels to each bundle, ensuring each package is accurately labeled with essential tracking information and product details.
  • Weigh Check Module: Conducts a detailed weight verification of each packaged bundle to ensure it contains the correct number of products, essential for maintaining quality control.
  • Bundle Divert System: Actively diverts bundles that do not meet specified criteria (e.g., incorrect product count or mislabeling) for reprocessing, ensuring only conforming products proceed to final packaging.
  • Hardy Check Weight Module: Provides a secondary verification to re-confirm the accuracy of each bundle’s weight, facilitating a final quality check before the products are cleared for dispatch.
  • HMI10 Human Machine Interface: Offers a user-friendly interface for system control and monitoring, allowing operators to make real-time adjustments and respond to system alerts efficiently.
  • Delta-X Real-Time Data Controller: Governs the entire system, providing advanced data traceability, integrity reporting, mix-up prevention, predictive analytics, and maintenance scheduling. This technology ensures high operational reliability and repeatability in product setups.

The BA-250 integrates a suite of cutting-edge technologies that elevate its operational capabilities. It incorporates advanced sensors for real-time monitoring, precision actuators for accurate material handling, and sophisticated software for seamless automation.

These technologies work in harmony to ensure the BA-250 delivers exceptional performance, making it a robust solution for industries seeking to leverage technological advancements for improved efficiency and quality.

RP Series

Rotary Pick and Place Series

Consistently feed, insert, attach, and batch delicate materials and oddly shaped products at 30,000 PPH, with vacuum pick & place motion and ±0.02″ placement accuracy.

Efficiently batching and bundling single products into precise groups with the batch counting and bundling module, designed for a wide range of materials and applications
BC Series

Batch Counter & Bundling

Efficiently batch single products into precise groups with Pack-Smart’s BC Series, designed for a wide range of materials and applications.

DZ Series

Zoned Divert Gate System

Elevate efficiency with the DZ Series Zoned Divert, designed for precise sorting and high-capacity handling in demanding industrial environments.

HSL-60

High-Speed Label Applicator

The HSL-60 is a highly versatile module that applies pressure sensitive labels at high speeds and accuracy for the most demanding precision-critical applications.

The VSC-1000 Hish-Speed Vision Scan system can manage up to 8 camera inputs with 4 parallel channels, allowing asynchronous management with real-time hardware.
VSC-1000

Vision Scan System

The VSC-1000 Vision System offers state-of-the-art vision scanning and real-time image processing, ideal for high-speed production environments.

3DF-1

3D Product Feeding
System

Revolutionize your production line with the 3DF-1, designed to sort, orient, and affix loose 3D products with unparalleled speed and precision.

3D Product Feeding System

Care-Free Bulk Loading

Redundant Feed Channels

Up to 200 3D PPM

3DF-1 uses a high speed vibratory bowl to handle delicate format 3D products. Once the parts are sorted and correctly oriented, they are transfered to a redundant set of buffers.

These buffered parts are then transfered to lugged horizontal track which allows smooth control of the products at the same time meeting the feeding request of the line. A precise rotary motion pick and place system will deliver them from the lugs to the packaging line.

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

Pharmaceutical Products

  • Eliminates the need for manual sorting and placement
  • Decreases staffing requirements, reducing labor costs
  • Enhances workplace safety by minimizing human interaction with machinery
  • Handles up to 200 products per minute, maximizing productivity.
  • Maintains consistent operation even under high-demand conditions.
  • Reduces bottlenecks in the production line, ensuring a smooth flow.
  • Care-free bulk loading reduces downtime and increases operational reliability.
  • Redundant feed channels ensure there is no interruption in the feeding process.
  • Precision handling of 3D products prevents damage and improves quality control.
 
  • High-speed vibratory bowl for efficient product sorting
  • Dual buffering system to accommodate high throughput
  • Advanced rotary pick and place system for precise product placement
  • Vacuum-assisted horizontal tracks for smooth control and transfer
  • Lugged horizontal track to maintain product orientation and spacing
  • Integrated control system with HMI10 for easy operation
  • Speed: Up to 200 3D products per minute
  • Product Size Range: 10 × 10 mm to 50 × 50 mm
  • Material Handling: Capable of processing various materials from lightweight to heavy stock
  • Feed Method: Vacuum nests rotary head with fiber-optic sensing
  • Power Requirements: 230 V AC, 3 phase, max 30 A

The 3DF-1 operates within a highly structured process flow designed to maximize both precision and efficiency in 3-dimensional product feeding. Starting with the automated feeding of items into the system, each component is carefully aligned and transported through various stages of handling and assembly.

  • VF900 Vibratory Bowl Feeder: Sorts and aligns products for further processing.
  • Vacuum Driven Horizontal Track: Transfers aligned products toward the placement station.
  • 3D50 3D Object Feeder: Accurately picks and places products onto the next stage of the production line with precise control.

Utilizes a high-speed vibratory bowl combined with a vacuum-assisted rotary head for precise product handling and placement. This system ensures gentle handling of 3D products, reducing waste and increasing efficiency. The integrated fiber-optic sensing guarantees exact product positioning, enhancing the overall precision of the production process.

RP Series

Rotary Pick and Place Series

Consistently feed, insert, attach, and batch delicate materials and oddly shaped products at 30,000 PPH, with vacuum pick & place motion and ±0.02″ placement accuracy.

RPP Series

Reciprocating Pick and Place Series

Maximize your production efficiency with the RPP Series, designed for high-speed, accurate handling of delicate materials and uniquely shaped products.

VC Series

Vacuum Transport

High torque servo driven vacuum transport conveys products at accurate speeds and controls product placement with 8 selectable vacuum zones. 

HLA-500

This system is equipped with sophisticated sensors and control systems that adjust parameters in real time to suit varying material specifications and environmental conditions.

15,000

Products per Hour

±0.5 mm

Affixing Accuracy

Quick

Changeovers

<1%

Rejection Rate

1–2 People

Operators

Pack-Smart’s HLA-500 system is the fastest solution for accurate velcro label and hi/low tack tape application at speeds up to 15,000 products per hour. Because of a modular system approach, HLA-500 is ideally suited to simultaneously carry out other in-line processes such as folding and gluing, creasing, tipping, Braille embossing inspection and digital imaging. 

The system comes with your choice of delivery options, shingled, in batches, or bridging modules, for seamless integration with third-party equipment for downstream processes. 

High-Value Cartons

Specialty Packaging

  • Achieve speeds of up to 15,000 products per hour, ensuring rapid production and meeting high-demand requirements. 
  • Consistent placement accuracy of ±0.5 mm for velcro labels, hi/low tack tape, and other reclose fasteners.
  • Networked brushless servo-driven technology for the timed blank feeder ensures smooth and efficient operations.
  • Features for all cylinders ensure consistent speed and performance throughout the process.
  • Simultaneously carry out processes like folding, gluing, creasing, tipping, Braille embossing, and digital imaging.
  • Choose from various delivery options such as shingled, in batches, or bridging modules for easy integration with third-party equipment.
  • Store jobs and machine parameters with extensive diagnostics, allowing for quick setups and changeovers.
  • Ethernet and internet connectivity via laptop ensures real-time monitoring and control.
  • Stainless Steel Planetary gearheads provide longevity and reliable performance.
  • Advanced fiber-optic networked control systems ensure lightning-fast communication and real-time adjustments.
  • Adjust the system’s speed based on product requirements, ensuring optimal output.
  • Automatic speed compensation ensures consistent product handling and delivery.
 
  • Modular System Approach: Enables simultaneous execution of various in-line processes such as folding, gluing, creasing, tipping, Braille embossing, and digital imaging. 
  • Multiple Delivery Options: Offers choices like shingled, in batches, or bridging modules for diverse delivery needs. 
  • Networked Brushless Servo-Driven Technology: Ensures timely and efficient feeding of blanks. 
  • Speed Compensation: Provides consistent speed adjustments for all cylinders. 
  • Recipe Functionality: Allows for the storage of jobs and machine parameters with extensive diagnostics for quick setups. 
  • Connectivity Features: Equipped with Ethernet and internet connectivity via a laptop for real-time monitoring and control. 
  • Durable Construction: Built with Stainless Steel Planetary gearheads for longevity. 
  • Advanced Control Systems: Utilizes a fiber-optic networked control system for fast communication and real-time adjustments. 
  • Variable Speed Delivery System: Ensures optimal output by adjusting the system’s speed based on product requirements. 
  • High-Speed Belt Lifting: Features automatic speed compensation for consistent product handling. 
  • Affixing accuracy of ±0.5 mm
  • Maximum carton speed up to 30,000 cartons per hour
  • Networked brushless servo driven
  • Fiber-optic networked
  • Variable speed with batching
  • High-speed with automatic speed compensation

The process flow for the HLA-500 High-Speed Label Application System is engineered to maximize efficiency and precision. This system seamlessly integrates each step of the labeling process, from initial product feeding to final quality inspection, ensuring high-speed, accurate label application with minimal downtime.

  • Smart Feeder: Efficiently automates your document inserting processes with speed and ease. Tasks combining multiple pre-fold inserts/outserts in variable stack counts are accomplished with the utmost precision and productivity, providing a quicker return on investment. 
  • Vacuum Conveyor: High torque servo-driven vacuum transport conveys products at exacting speeds and controls product placement with 8 selectable vacuum zones.  
  • Delivery Transport: The delivery conveyor is designed with several ergonomic features minimizing fatigue of the operator when handling products in high-speed applications.
  • Barcode Scanning Module: ISO Grading and/or data capturing virtualy all types of linear 2D barcode.  Any non-conforming products are automatically diverted to ensure maximum throughput.
  • High-Speed Label Applicator: A highly versatile module that applies pressure sensitive labels at high speeds and accuracy for the most demanding precision-critical applications. 
  • Divert Gate: Divert non-compliant products from the product stream through a reciprocating gate. 

The HLA-500 High-Speed Label Application System incorporates state-of-the-art technologies designed to enhance performance and reliability. Key technologies include a brushless servo drive for precise control, vacuum tensioned web for stable label handling, and advanced fiber-optic sensors for accurate positioning and operation monitoring.

HSL-60

High-Speed Label Applicator

The HSL-60 is a highly versatile module that applies pressure sensitive labels at high speeds and accuracy for the most demanding precision-critical applications.

FF Series

Primary Friction Feeder

The FF Series Friction Feeder can handle the lightest paper and is equally at home when dealing with heavy stock materials when called upon.

The VSC-1000 Hish-Speed Vision Scan system can manage up to 8 camera inputs with 4 parallel channels, allowing asynchronous management with real-time hardware.
VSC-1000

Vision Scan System

The VSC-1000 Vision System offers state-of-the-art vision scanning and real-time image processing, ideal for high-speed production environments.

VC Series

Vacuum Transport

High torque servo driven vacuum transport conveys products at accurate speeds and controls product placement with 8 selectable vacuum zones.