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| FachPack new ask pages as industry directory  Nürnberg Messe GmbH has launched new online platform for the packaging exhibition trio in Nuremberg from 25-27 September 2007. The good 1,300 exhibitors (2006: 1,325) at FachPack (packaging solutions), PrintPack (package printing/packaging supplies production) and LogIntern (intralogistics) can scarcely be managed on the ground. It's better to find out before the event where the most important companies and new products are or arrange an appointment straight away. Best of all with a mouse click: www.ask-fachpack.de and www.ask-logintern.de. In cooperation with the publisher m&a-Verlag, exhibitors' press releases are linked direct to the exhibition portal at www.expodatabase.de.The first port of call for those who prepare their visit to LogIntern well using www.ask.LogIntern.de is the brand-new day-lit hall. LogIntern, the youngest exhibition in the packaging trio, has its home here. A good 130 exhibitors are registered direct for the LogIntern hall and occupy the whole space right from the start, but a remarkable total of 330 exhibitors also show products relevant to LogIntern in other halls. This year’s special show at LogIntern also invites visitors. "Packaging and Transport", the logical development of the familiar special show on "AutoID", illustrates the potential offered by the symbiosis of packaging and the rest of the supply chain. As in previous years, the consultant partner of NürnbergMesse is the Verein zur Förderung innovativer Verfahren in der Logistik (VVL) in co-operation with its accredited research centre, the Logistics Department (FLog) of the University of Dortmund, directed by Prof. Rolf Jansen. The exhibit, which is implemented jointly by over 30 well-known companies vividly shows the necessary coupling between material flows and information systems using an example of five stations in a realistic industrial scenario. All the relevant process steps from incoming goods, production and stock management to order-picking and outgoing goods are demonstrated with examples of container flows and palleted load units. The exhibit uses various identification systems: Bar code and 2D systems show the present state of the art, whereas the use of radio frequency identification systems (RFID) allows a look into future technologies. The exhibit starts by marking the logistic objects at the entry to the system using various technologies and clearly shows the possibilities offered by optical and radio-frequency identification technologies via identification at decision points. The heart of the exhibit is a portal robot, which performs all necessary handling processes and vividly presents the application of automatic identification technologies. The portal robot, which operates simultaneously with two robot arms in overlapping working areas, handles the containers between the processing stations and automatically assembles and pallets the containers. In another special application, the robot automatically feeds goods to a flow-through rack. The rack has a cascade design to enable the containers to be placed on it. The goods pass from the rack to special containers using weight calculation and RFID-aided order-picking. The finished picked units receive an RFID shipping label and are palleted. Finally, the transverse sliding telescopic dolly handles the supply and disposal of the container buffers in the working area of the robot. At the same time, it moves the finished picked pallet units through an RFID gate to check their completeness. The load unit is then secured and weighed and the weight stored in the transponder on the pallet. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |