Monitoring system for a packaging system
AssigneeTetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
InventorMikael Larsson
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Abstract
A monitoring system for a packaging system comprising a plurality of machine units comprises an output sensor for measuring packages output from the packaging system, a number of pairs of machine unit sensors, each pair of sensors comprising an input sensor and an output sensor, wherein the number of pairs of machine unit sensors is arranged at a number of machine units, respectively, a processing apparatus configured to receive information from the sensors, and a communications network configured to send information from the sensors to the processing apparatus. Based on the information from the number of pairs of machine unit sensors a number of wasted packages may be determined, which in turn imply that a reliable efficiency measure may be determined.
Claims16
A monitoring system for a packaging system comprising a plurality of machine units, said monitoring system comprising
- a packaging system output sensor for measuring packages output from said packaging system,
- a number of pairs of machine unit sensors, each pair of sensors comprising a machine unit input sensor and a machine unit output sensor,
- wherein said number of pairs of machine unit sensors is arranged at a number of machine units, respectively,
- a processing apparatus configured to receive information from said packaging system output sensor and said number of pairs of machine unit sensors, and
- a communications network configured to send information from said packaging system output sensor and said number of pairs of machine unit sensors to said processing apparatus.
A method for determining a number of wasted packages for a machine unit, said method comprising
- determining a number of packages fed into said machine unit based on information about detected packages from a machine unit input sensor,
- determining a number of packages fed out from said machine unit based on information about detected packages from a machine output sensor, and
- determining said number of wasted packages based on said number of packages fed into said machine unit and said number of packages fed out from said machine unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.