Product/Service

Automated Equipment / Automation

Source: Erie Plastics
Automated equipment at EP provides value-added operations to our precision molded parts
Automated equipment at EP provides value-added operations to our precision molded parts. Molded components are commonly decorated, assembled, inspected, and packed at high rates.

Automation provides:

  • Efficient finishing operations for simple or complex products.
  • Cost-effective, high volume, cellular manufacturing to complement high cavitation molding to as many as 1,000 parts per minute.
  • A wide variety of printing options: offset, pad printing, and hot stamping.
  • Numerous assembly techniques: snap together, screw together threaded components, hot melt glue, heat staking.
  • Various critical parameter inspection methods: vision systems with precision optical character recognition, dimensional checks to thousandths of an inch, leak testing.
  • Advanced material handling systems for cellular manufacturing and automatic packaging.

    Our automation projects are carefully developed and managed, starting with detailed specifications on performance and machine design guidelines, and leading to rigorous factory and plant acceptance tests.

    Some of our automation systems include:

  • Orienting, stacking, and packing of food products closures at 1,000 ppm.
  • Multicolor pad printing and inspection of pharmaceutical products containers.
  • Two piece assembly of push-pull closures for household chemical product closures.
  • Two-piece assembly of personal care flip-top closures.
  • Three-piece assembly of push-pull closures for food and beverage product closures.
  • Hot melt glue insertion for household chemical product closures.
  • Four-piece assembly of food & beverage fitments.
  • Heat sealing seal for food and beverage fitments.
  • Cap assembly and torqueing for food & beverage closures.
  • Hot stamping for pharmaceutical product containers.
  • Scoring of tamper-evident dust covers.
  • Offset printing of dust covers.
  • Lining operation for flat caps.
  • Sonic welding head operations.
  • Separation of small parts from runners.
  • Three -piece assembly of shell, platform, and
    elevating screw for personal care package.

    Erie Plastics, One Plastics Road, Corry, PA 16407-0903. Tel: 814-664-4661; Fax: 814-664-9323.