A choice of packaging machinery includes: technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety,maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floorspace, flexibility (change-over, materials, etc.), energy usage, quality of outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, pharmaceuticals, etc.), throughput, efficiency, productivity, ergonomics, return on investment, etc.
Packaging machinery can be:
- purchased as standard, off-the-shelf
- purchased custom-made or custom-tailored to specific operations
- manufactured or modified by in-house engineers and maintenance staff
Efforts at packaging line automation increasingly use programmable logic controllers and robotics.
Packaging machines may be of the following general types:
- Accumulating and Collating Machines
- Blister packs, skin packs and Vacuum Packaging Machines
- Bottle caps equipment, Over-Capping, Lidding, Closing, Seaming and Sealing Machines
- Box, Case and Tray Forming, Packing, Unpacking, Closing and Sealing Machines
- Cartoning machines
- Cleaning, Sterilizing, Cooling and Drying Machines
- Coding, Printing, Marking, Stamping, and Imprinting Machines
- Converting Machines
- Conveyor belts, Accumulating and Related Machines
- Feeding, Orienting, Placing and Related Machines
- Filling Machines: Handling dry, powdered, solid, liquid, gas, or viscous products
- Inspecting: visual, sound, metal detecting, etc.
- Label dispenser
- Orienting, Unscrambling Machines
- Package Filling and Closing Machines
- Palletizing, Depalletizing, Unit load assembly
- Product Identification: labeling, marking, etc.
- Sealing Machines: Heat sealer
- Slitting Machines:
- Weighing Machines: Check weigher, multihead weigher
- Wrapping machines: Stretch wrapping, Shrink wrap, Banding
- Form, Fill and Seal Machines
- Other specialty machinery: slitters, perforating, laser cutters, parts attachment, etc.
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