Food: Secondary Packaging

Secondary Packaging in the Food Industry

Banner Engineering offers innovative solutions for increased accuracy, greater productivity and cost savings in secondary packaging.

We are experts in advanced optics, LED, laser, and photoelectric circuits. Our rugged, easy to use sensors are capable of solving a number of the most difficult packaging applications, including regulating product flow and detecting targets with vibrant graphics and clear, shiny packaging. Vision and image sensors from Banner provide comprehensive inspection capabilities for label verification, bar code reading, optical character recognition and date/lot code inspection. Our expanding line of LED lights and indicators provide years of brilliant bright illumination and status indication.

Secondary Packaging Food Applications

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Cartoner

Banner Engineering boosts food packaging with carton stack height sensors and Q4X laser sensors for irregular package detection, ensuring quality and safety.

Case Erector

Banner's case erecting solutions for food packaging: Advanced LE and LTF sensors for variable size detection and bright LED indicators for line monitoring

Case Packer

Banner's case packing solutions for food packaging: Barcode monitoring and advanced sensors ensure accuracy and adapt to various sizes and colors.

Case Sealer

Banner's food packaging case sealing: LE and LTF laser sensors ensure adaptable, precise sealing for varied case sizes, enhancing production efficiency

Labeler

Banner's food packaging label solutions use advanced barcode readers for accurate labeling, enhancing traceability and reducing recalls.

Trigger Sensing on Printer

In the beverage industry, date/lot codes are mandatory on all products in order to identify when and where a product was manufactured. Finding a solution that can accurately identify the bottle caps and then trigger a machine to print the date/lot codes onto the bottle is required.

Registration Mark Detection on a Labeler

Banner Engineering’s R58B Expert registration mark sensor confirms the registration mark’s position on the web. This allows the machine to make minor infeed adjustments to ensure the cut is properly placed and all labels are consistent and complete. If the labels are incorrectly cut they need to be removed from the bottling line creating costly downtime and waste. A quick and easy-to-use sensor is needed to dramatically improve throughput.

Roll Diameter on Labels

In the beverage industry, labels need to be applied to the bottles quickly and without error to keep production levels high. Accurately monitoring the thickness on a spool of labels and controlling the unwinding speed is very important for the process to run smoothly. A solution is needed that can accurately supervise and report the material levels on a spool in order to prevent it from running out during the manufacturing process and delaying production.

Date/Lot Code Presence or Absence Detection

An SLM series slot sensor and an iVu Series vision sensor are used to detect bottles passing on the line and to verify that date/lot codes have been correctly printed onto the bottles.

Shrink Sleeve Label Presence and Correct Label Verification

The P4 OMNI vision camera is located immediately after the bottles leave the labeler which assures that the presentation of the label will be in a repeatable manner and therefore can be compared to a stored image for a match. The P4 OMNI is sealed to IP68 and made with nickel plated zinc housing.

Refrigerated Breakfast Roll Detection on Multi-Lane Conveyor

Dark packaging with multiple colors transitions can be difficult to detect with traditional red LED sensors. Banner Engineering’s miniature VS8 photoelectric sensor with blue LED works well with low reflectivity labels to detect refrigerated food packaged in pressurized cans. The small sensors fit into tight spaces and work well for short range applications. The blue LED works with the small spot size to minimize the effects of color transitions on the labels.

Detecting Clear Bottles to Trigger Shrink Sleeve Labeler

High-speed labeler processing 800 bottles per minute

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Featured Products

Q3X Series Laser Contrast Sensor

Rugged high speed sensor for challenging presence/absence, orientation and registration mark detection applications with small contrast differences.

Q4X Series Rugged Laser Distance Sensor

Rugged Q4X laser distance sensor solves many challenging applications and comes in a rugged IP69K rating with FDA food grade stainless steel housing.

LE Series 1 m Range Laser Displacement Sensor

LE's measurement accuracy, ready to measure distances of 100 to 1000 mm, is suitable for controlling, sorting, and inspection tasks in quality control.

WLS28-2 Versatile, All-Purpose LED Strip Light

28 mm profile compact LED light for a variety of industrial applications. Available with motion sensors, various lenses & windows for max flexibility.

Hinge Safety Interlock Switches

Hinge style safety interlock switches have a built-in hinged lever actuator that mounts to a hinged door or flap to detect it is being opened.

TL70 Core Series 70mm Modular Tower Lights

Big, bright tower lights come preassembled or as modular segments for customized indication. Lights are gray when off to eliminate false indication.

TL70 with Audible Indicator

Segments for the TL70 Tower Light are available in adjustable audible modules. Modules offer tremendous flexibility and can be customized as needed.

XS26 Series Expandable Safety Controllers

The XS26 is expandable for complex safety applications where 3 or more safety relays are typically used. Five different communication protocols are available, including EtherCAT (via communication module). Supports up to 154 safe inputs and up to 68 safe outputs using expansion modules.

30 mm Mount Emergency Stop Buttons

Patented 30 mm mounting base enables easy installation and hookup with no assembly, individual wiring or additional enclosure required.

30mm Mount Emergency Stop Buttons

Illuminated button for easy identification of which e-stop has been activated. 30 mm mounting base for easy installation and hookup with no assembly.

WLB32 LED Workstation Light

Bright, glare-free workstation light with adjustable brightness improves productivity.

Accurately Measuring Bakery Ingredients

Baking is a mixture of creativity, precision and attention to detail. The Wilkinson Baking Company has added technical innovation to the mix. The Wilkinson Bread Bakery is a compact, completely self-contained and fully automated bread bakery. This unique machine combines technology with tradition to transform simple raw ingredients into bakery fresh bread at 40 loaves an hour.

Consistent Dough Height Measurement

The dough for one of the company’s many popular breakfast cereals must fall within specific height parameters to ensure that it will have the perfect flake. Dough that is too thick will emerge from baking stiff and heavy. Dough that is too thin will crumble easily. This impacts the quality, taste and texture of the final product as well as product weight and packaging. Any product that does not meet the rigorous quality standards of the company will not be shipped or sold on the consumer market.

Thermal Remediation Temperature Measurement

The EPA has placed restrictions on the use of many fumigants citing a correlation between their use and ozone depletion. As an alternative, a large-scale flour mill performs three to four thermal remediations per year to eradicate flour beetles. The temperature inside the mill is brought up to 122° F (50° C). This is done gradually to minimize equipment and building strain caused by heat expansion.