Wayne Automation is pleased to partner with Rockwell Automation in the deployment of Emulate3D to support dynamic digital twin development and controls simulation. This tool provides the Wayne Automation engineering team with a unique capability to fully model our equipment designs in a physics-based environment and complete our controls testing validation ahead of production. Validating the synthesis of mechanical design and controls testing in a fully digital environment allows us to provide our equipment solutions in less time and at less cost.
“Emulate3D gives us a platform to demonstrate to our customers and integration partners Wayne equipment operating to the requirements in the early stages of a project retiring execution risk” says Jay Bachman, Wayne Automation Vice President & General Manager. “This is one more way Wayne Automation works to innovate our equipment and provide performance and reliability to our customers.”
When Wayne Automation decided it was time to bring most of its parts production back in-house, they purchased the latest Haas CNC machines to do the job. To get the machines up to top capacity, Wayne partnered with OPTO for Haas, an innovative Phillips program that provides companies with high level manufacturing expertise to help them achieve rapid productivity and quality gains.
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This growing East Coast brewery located near Richmond, Virginia, found value in choosing responsive, local machine builders and vendors who are intimately familiar with their lines of bottling and canning equipment. They picked a Wayne Automation case erector, six-pack erector and inserter, and case top sealer for their secondary packaging side of the line. See story on Packworld.com.
When Wayne Automation was asked to use Siemens components to operate their packaging equipment in a large brewery in Mexico, they were happy to rise to the challenge. With the help of Siemens and their local Siemens distributor, Applied Controls, Wayne was able to give the brewery exactly what they requested.
Wayne built nearly 60 packaging machines for the project including BCI Basket Carrier Erectors/Inserters, RPS Case Sealers, and SF-400 UHS Partition Inserters. The Siemens HMI on each system is programmed in both English and Spanish with the ability a toggle back and forth to simplify operation and alleviate language barriers.
Find out more about how Wayne and Siemens worked together to make this brewery a success.
Wayne Automation Corporation introduces a new vertical case erector designed to meet the needs of customers looking for an affordable, small footprint machine capable of running up to 20 cases per minute. The vertical case handling of this erector forms cases upright and discharges them on their bottoms.
The WTP Tray Packer from Wayne Automation is built with the Craft Brewery in mind and answers the backbreaking task of loading packs of ringed cans or sealed cases of bottles or cans into pre-formed trays. This compact system is only 5 x 5 feet and runs up to 15 tpm.
Wayne Automation Corporation has teamed up with Metal Edge International to create an enclosed, fully-automated edge application system for users applying cutting edge blades to cartons.The new system brings together Metal Edge’s BME (Bench Model Edger) Profile Edge Application System with a Wayne Automation Carton Feeder.
Wayne Automation packaging equipment is highlighted in the January/February 2013 PMT Magazine article: “KEEPING AHEAD OF THE CURVE – As beverage market segments blur, packaging machinery manufacturers provide the edge.”
The story provides an interesting look into how beverage packaging has changed in recent years and ways companies like Wayne Automation Corporation help beverage packagers achieve their goals. Read how Wayne’s Case Erectors, Basket Carrier Erector / Inserters and Partition Inserters play an important role in helping manufacturers move away from buying glass in reshippers and establishing an in-house box shop.
Wayne Automation Corporation is pleased to introduce the BCI Basket Carrier Erector / Inserter. This major new entry to the beverage packaging market offers a small footprint, all-in-one solution to erect and insert 6-pack carriers into cases or trays. The BCI provides opening speeds up to 120 carriers per minute for a throughput of 30 cases per minute.
