In construction material, chemical or food and beverage, safety when transporting and storing palletised products is increasingly important.
Beumer has responded to a growing need by developing a new machine in its proven stretch hood model range that offers even more practical and safer handling for the user.
What has changed? The new Beumer stretch hood A is accessible without a platform and steps. Maintenance work, such as changing the blades, or the sealing bars, are now handled at floor level. When the operator opens a drawer, which provides access to blades and sealing bars, the machine is automatically brought to a standstill to protect the operator. This removes the need to move sub-assemblies to maintenance position.
Due to this rapid access capability, maintenance work is accelerated, and the risk of accidents and malfunctions minimised.
The machine's ergonomics have also been consistently advanced. The operator can feed in the film with just a few steps and no tools.
Additional benefits include a compact design with resulting low height and small footprint.
A material friendly film transport system now feeds the film hood into the system. On its way to the crimping and stretching unit, the sealing seam on the film hood cools down so that it can be crimped without losing time. The pallets can be packed in a shorter cycle time.
To improve the human-machine interface, the Beumer Group Human Machine Interface (HMI) has been launched, a newly-developed operator panel with an optimised user interface and graphical navigation. It is easy to understand and intuitive, and helps to define efficient working sequences so an operator can control the machine safely with only a little training. The system is controlled by a Siemens SIMATIC S7-300.
