We give below a list of projects, with a brief description, carried out in the last three to five years in the packaging and food industries. As you can see they cover a wide range of applications, always involving P.L.C. control, plus usually a Drive or Servo system and quite often some form of intelligent Operator Interface.

 

 

Case Erector and Sleeve Inserter for Zenica

Machine for forming a ‘ Flat pack ‘ box, Hot Melt Gluing the Bottom Flaps, plus inserting a Lining Sleeve prior to the being filled with a Green Dye used in the Food Industry

 

 

Pick and Place for Packing ‘ Sharp ‘ Microwave Ovens

End of production line transfer of completed Microwaves Units into a previously made up box. Machine line included closing and hot melt gluing of the box top flaps.

 

 

End of production line transfer conveyors

Servo Controlled Conveyors in the packing area at Roberts Yorkshire Kitchens, Leeds,  Product being a series of  ‘ Own Brand ‘  Yorkshire Puddings.

 

 

Controls for Batch Mixing Machines at Roberts Yorkshire Kitchens, Leeds

Again at Roberts,  we supplied the controls for two batch mixing machines for adding flavourings to the Batter mix.  Both using Mitsubishi P.L.C.’s and A.C Drives.

 

 

Collator and Pick and Place for bottles of Cooking Oil

This machine could be set to collect  12 or 24  0.5 or 1.0 litre bottles of cooking oil, then pick and place them onto a tray prior to being wrapped. The final customer was Cargill in Liverpool.

 

 

Controls for two Oil Spray machines for McVite’s at Ashby de la Zouch

Siemens P.L.C. based control systems for two machines involved with the flavouring of cheese biscuits and ‘ nibbles ‘

 

Controls and Drives for a Complete replacement Conveyor Control System for Rizla UK

Originally Rizla had a packing station at each product manufacturing station. They decided to transfer all products onto a central conveyor and then to route the products through the appropriate wrapping line into a centralised packing area. Pimbo I D Ltd designed and supplied the complete new control system.

 

 

Several Pick and Place plus Material Handling Projects at Minky Home Care Products

Including Servo Systems controlling the bending up of ‘Ironing Board Frames ‘ not to mention two machines each with 22 pneumatic actuators which put the springs into Clothes Pegs

 

 

Paint Line Unloading Machine for ‘ Link 51 ‘ racking components

With the advent of restrictions on the maximum weight that could be lifted by one man, Link 51

purchased a bespoke designed machine to lift their racking components off a paint line and place them onto a conveyor system. Pimbo I D Ltd designed and commissioned the control and drive system which was built, in this case, by the main contractor.

 

 

Box Sealing and envelope attaching Machine for Q.V.C.

Post packing area box sealing machine, with the use of a hot melt gluing system.  This was followed by an envelope attaching section.

 

    Pimbo Industrial Design Ltd

Material handling

and food industry