he Italian company is successfully using this new function to improve setup times and quality control on a BOBST EXPERTFOLD 80 folder-gluer for folding carton production
Today, Alberto Azzarri can prepare the recipe for the ACCUCHECK quality control in his office, independently from the production schedule. (Credit: BOBST)
Paper converting specialist Prealpi srl is one of the first customers to leverage the power of the new ACCUCHECK Recipe Management within the BOBST CONNECT platform. The Italian company is successfully using this new function to improve setup times and quality control on a BOBST EXPERTFOLD 80 folder-gluer for folding carton production.
As part of its vision for the future of packaging production, BOBST is developing new opportunities in connectivity and automation to enable customers to increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce waste. Prealpi srl, which is based in Castiglione Olona, Varese, north-west of Milan, already decided to fully automate their blank quality checks with ACCUCHECK. This BOBST inline quality control system inspects every single blank according to specific client criteria, to ensure only zero-fault boxes are delivered.
So far, operators had to upload the reference pdf of the blank to be checked into the ACCUCHECK, before defining the control areas, criteria and levels via the HMI. However, BOBST has now introduced new digital remote capabilities with the ACCUCHECK Recipe Management function which is part of the BOBST Connect platform. It allows users to create quality control recipes for folding carton packaging remotely and then send them directly to any ACCUCHECK on the production floor.
With a wide range of printing and converting capabilities in house, Prealpi serves customers in the food and beverage, cosmetics, hair and beauty, pharmaceutical, healthcare, textiles, and electronics sectors with high quality folding carton and corrugated packaging, beautiful gift boxes, and many types of in-store floor and counter displays.
The company’s large facility consists of two production units and a separate warehouse, along with a research and design department, which works with customers to produce packaging prototypes. The larger 3,000 sqm unit is dedicated to the production of packaging, displays and stands made of folding carton or corrugated board, while another 2,500 sqm unit houses the production of folding carton boxes and blanks.
Job recipes for the ACCUCHECK can now be prepared independently from the schedule of the production floor. The new function also helped to improve the control quality. The prepress, quality control, and production department can each give their input on what should be checked and how. This means that more information can be gathered and integrated into the recipe.
Source: Company Press Release