Customer Success Story
With Schaeffler Solutions for the Food Industry
Our customer is one of the leading food processing companies, manufacturing complete solutions for bottling beverages and food pastes. Its complicated systems must meet the hygiene requirements for manufacturing foods and have to be designed for failure-free, continuous operation. The corrosion resistance of components plays just as important a role as the reliable sealing of bearings to prevent the penetration of particles and the loss of lubricant. Schaeffler meets these requirements with special ball-bearing, yoke, and stud type track rollers as well as linear systems.
Benefits
Customer benefits
Corrosion-resistant thanks to stainless steel or special coatings
Use of materials that are resistant to the cleaning agents used
Initial greasing with high-quality NSF-H1 lubricants
Maximum bearing service life thanks to effective protection against contaminants
Effective bearing sealing against the contamination of machines through the loss of lubricant
Challenge
Solution
Molding and filling unit
The filling machine processes the packaging materials that are continuously supplied from large rolls. The machine draws in the material and, in the first step, molds it into cartons. This is performed under a high load by yoke and stud type track rollers on a profiled cam in a sterilized environment. The components installed here have to be resistant to the foods being processed and to the sterilization and cleaning agents used.
We meet these requirements with special ball-bearing, yoke, and stud type track rollers.
Folding unit (final folders)
After filling, the individual packages are placed in a row and removed from the filling machine to undergo the final packaging process, such as palletizing. Packages are handled by linear guidance systems. What’s unusual here is that the carriages are stationary and the guideways move. Resistance to media is once again required. The carriages also need regular relubrication.
We meet these requirements with Schaeffler monorail guidance systems configured as described below.