Innovative Solutions for the Print, Packaging and Card Industries

  Automating your Manufacturing Lines


Inspired by your needs we can create new electro-mechanical/software solutions for automating your manufacturing lines. These innovation solutions enable creative, personalized marketing and secure, reliable, high-speed processing.
We build on our existing capabilities and technology:

  • Feeding items e.g., cards, flat product samples
  • Precision placement and affixing
  • High speed material handling (integration with continuous webs - paper, film, foil, flexible packaging, etc.)
  • In line folding
  • Card reading (i.e., magnetic stripe, bar code, OCR)
  • Verification - vision system and database
  • Database reading/writing
  • Controlling industrial laser or ink jet printers (e.g., personalized letters or carriers)
  • Advanced motion control

If you want improved products, lower costs, or increased productivity, talk with us about how we can create a system to bring your ideas to life. Within two to three weeks we can assess the feasibility and develop design concepts tho meet your needs.

 
  Examples of Recent Systems Innovations  
 


Verification, initializing and encoding for all types of cards (plastic, paper or Teslin). Whether it’s the last step before cards are shipped by the supplier, or the first step when they are received by the card customer, we can check card data and visual integrity as well as setup cards so they are ready for use. A compact special-purpose unit can be developed to meet your requirements.

High-speed reading, writing, verification and packaging of electronic media. Building on our experience with plastic chip cards we have developed designs for reading and writing personalized CDs at speeds up to 3600 per hour. This system allows a corporation to send out personalized investment information and annual reports to their shareholders, or a music company to create personalized CDs of their customers’ favorite music.

Precision placement onto a glue-patterned surface. We have adapted our label systems for medical, pharmaceutical and other applications that need high-speed methods for applying material onto sticky surfaces. For example, for bandages or medicated patches.

Very high-speed, selective packaging. With six or more feeders under computer control, these systems allow secure, random selection and packaging of lottery tickets or promotional coupons at speeds of 250,000 items per hour.



  Proprietary Components Available for Licensing
 


When the technology is not available to meet our customer’s requirements, we develop new, patented components for our systems. These components may be licensed and incorporated into your equipment if you are an OEM manufacturer. Contact us directly to learn more about licensing opportunities.

Multi-axis motion controller. Small self-contained unit with CANbus, easily programmable, multi-axis motion control, unique electronic gearing with no rounding errors.

Single motor feeder. Our simplified, reliable feeder design with a catch-up capability competes favorably with multiple motor feeders on the market.