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Student Mobility > Programmes and Courses > Courses in English > Course detailsPackaging Automation PE
- Teaching: Completely taught in English
- ECTS: 5
- Level: Graduate
- Semester: Winter
- Prerequisites:
- Load:
Lectures Exercises Laboratory exercises Project laboratory Physical education excercises Field exercises Seminar Design exercises Practicum 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 - Course objectives:
- Acquainting with the aim and importance of contemporary packaging technology, packaging equipment and systems, and basics of automated packaging system planning.
- Student responsibilities:
- Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:
- Performed on the basis of: - three periodic written examinations, 50 %; - the project, 40 %; - monitoring the presence and commitment of students (just in the classroom and through e-learning), 10 %. In the event that a student does not pass all periodic written examinations, but neatly fulfills other obligations, the student may access written and oral exam.
- Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:
- Coverage of quality: - immediately in the classroom, in direct communication with the students (student questions and discussion); - periodically, according to the processed education content, by grading of written examinations and project; - exposition/discussing of results (scores) - instructing students how to achieve better results.
- Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):
- After a successful completion of the course, for a product, a student will be able to: - design a product and its packaging by a computer; - design the variants of packaging for different levels of packing and recommend the most suitable; - predict the components of an automatic packing process; - recommend the packing machines and equipment; - design an integrated automatic packing system by a computer.
- Lectures
- 1. Introduction to packing technology: purpose and significance, concepts, historical development, trends. Automation.
- 2. Aspects of quality, safety, standardisation and legislation in packaging. Disposal, recovery and environmental protection.
- 3. Primary, secondary and tertiary packaging systems. Relationship between manufacturing processes and packing, and relationship between packing and transport-distribution system.
- 4. Packaging of liquids, bulk material and discrete goods.
- 5. Packaging: materials; design and production; standards.
- 6. Labeling systems in the packing. Packaging design and its software optimization.
- 7. Testing of packaging. Packing functions. Distribution packaging.
- 8. Packing process and operations. Packing automation.
- 9. Methodology of automatic packing system design. Equipment, devices and machines for automatic packing. Examples of production solutions and manufacturers.
- 10. Handling and discrete filling systems.
- 11. Transport systems in the packing process. Equipment for labeling, recognition and vision systems.
- 12. Closures and capping. Powder products filers.
- 13. Design of automatic packing systems. System capacity. Control of packing systems.
- 14. Liquid and solid filling systems.
- 15. Computer support for automated packing system design. Simulation and process optimization and packaging system. Investment and exploitation costs.
- Exercises
- 1. Defining of student project. Package designing.
- 2. Package designing.
- 3. Package designing.
- 4. Package designing.
- 5. Packing process plan.
- 6. Packing process plan.
- 7. Choice of packing equipment, devices and machines.
- 8. Choice of packing equipment, devices and machines.
- 9. Choice of packing equipment, devices and machines.
- 10. Packing system design.
- 11. Packing system design.
- 12. Simulation and optimisation of packing process and system.
- 13. Simulation and optimisation of packing process and system.
- 14. Application of vision system.
- 15. Programming of packing devices and systems.
- Compulsory literature:
- W. Soroka: Fundamentals of Packaging Technology, IoPPress, 2009.
K. L. Yam (Ed.): The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
J. F. Hanlon, R. J. Kelsey, H. E. Forcinio: Handbook of Package Engineering, Technomic Publishing Company, 1998. - Recommended literature: