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Packaging 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.
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