Packaging
The BOBST REGISTRON S 5050 Register Data Analyser lets you monitor, analyze, and improve productivity
Friday 02. October 2009 - Inline printing and converting processes are subject to a number of factors which create peaks and troughs in both production and quality. These include variations in web tension, print settings, embossing cylinder settings, ink solvent levels, substrate types, and substrate quality.
Most of the adjustments made on the press are carried out based on the operators experience, rather than by following a set of laid down procedures, making a clear understanding of which corrective actions have been successful difficult to gain. The majority of the process instabilities suffered have an impact on register, which is why BOBST Web-Fed Solutions has developed the REGISTRON S 5050 Register Data Analyzer. The system gives users a better understanding of the influence of these factors on register by providing a powerful process visualization tool.
Available as an optional feature for the S 5100 register control system, the system allows users to see, at a glance, press speed and lateral and longitudinal register variations in printing, embossing, and converting. Such data, which can be stored in the unit for more than seven days worth of production, can be displayed for each press unit, allowing the histogram of register values and their standard deviation to be monitored. The operator can select the period of the analysis, by defining the start and end-time, or by setting markers during the production run. The S 5050 Register Data Analyzer module produces reports that track production and can be printed directly to a connected printer or saved on a USB key. Because production is influenced by so many factors, the S 5050 Register Data Analyzer module allows users to monitor them and so ensure the production of saleable boxes. This module is available for new LEMANIC presses as well as for all existing presses equipped with the S 5100 register control.
BOBSTs Web-Fed Solutions product line has been able to develop ideas such as the S5050 Register Data Analyzer because of its extensive understanding of customers production needs, in depth know-how of the processes involved, and a corporate ethos that fosters innovation and research. The product line has been at the forefront of the development of register control systems since the first REGISTRON in the early 1960s, a system that was followed by a string of incremental innovations that continuously increased the performance of the technology, such as the High-Dynamic-Interface (HDI) system that integrates ELS (Electronic Line Shaft) technology with register control and considerably improves press makeready performance. Waste reduction features such as these are now fitted on all new LEMANIC gravure presses, as well as on the flexible packaging lines of ROTOMEC, its Bobst Group sister company.
To make new technology effective, know-how must be supported by know-why, and BOBST Web-Fed Solutions current range is focused on assisting users across the global marketplace to create value in their packaging. In recent years users have increasingly looked towards optimizing production runs, for example to fulfill their clients marketing requirements for the fast turnaround of special promotional campaigns. To meet this need BOBST Web-Fed Solutions developed the LEMANIC RIVIERA platform, a gravure printing line engineered to provide an effective medium-to-long run production solution. For short-to-medium runs, where fast job makeready and quick changeover are even more important, the LEMANIC DELTA was developed to provide a versatile, cost-effective platform.
Innovations such as these have led to BOBST Web-Fed solutions becoming the clear market leader in the industry, with in excess of a 50% share of the global gravure printed packaging market and an 85% share of the tobacco packaging printing and converting market.