The plastic bottle filling and sealing machine offers a new opportunity to standardize modular processes, facilitating unique and revolutionary automation concepts for packaging machines. It combines three central functions of installation technology: standard digital sensors and actuators, digital safety sensors and actuators and IO-Link. This capability reduces the number of fieldbus modules required per modular unit, ideally to just one, making installation simpler and faster. With a few clicks of the mouse, users can select the safety function (such as the emergency stop button or light curtain) in the safety control engineering tool to complete the configuration. Control engineers and electrical designers do not need special knowledge of module parameters. In addition, there is no longer a need for a manufacturer-specific tool to transfer the SNN (Security Network Number) to a ready-to-use device, saving time and stress.
To optimally meet customer needs, IBERFAR collaborated with Siemens to add new functional modules to an existing machine: the current liquid filling system is now also capable of filling solids. Thanks to this modular expansion, IBERFAR was able to extend the life of the existing machines and save the costs of purchasing a separate filling/encapsulation machine for solids. With modular extensions, an optimal car concept has been created
IBERFAR that perfectly meets the specific requirements of the site - such as the size of the portion - as well as the requirements of production and variability of the product. IBERFAR also benefits from energy savings in the fields of compressed air and AVC.

With the SIMATIC IOT2050 smart IoT gateway, it is easy to connect the machine to the IIoT, which enables multiprotocol data exchange. Remote access is also available. The machine is automated with Siemens SIMATIC and automation engineering is done through the TIA portal.





    liquid bag filling machine manufacturer IBERFAR operates an EU GMP compliant manufacturing facility near Lisbon where it produces solid and liquid dosage forms. IBERFAR impresses its customers with its quality, short delivery times and its extreme flexibility in relation to its customers' needs. To be able to respond even better to the demands of changing production volumes, the company has made its production line more flexible: the existing unidirectional standard lines have been converted to
High/low volume mixing lines. For IBERFAR, this allows an easy transition from liquid to solid dosage forms, with enhanced capabilities for filling vials with holes between 20 mm and 85 mm and counting tablets and capsules (including softgels) with diameters between 1.5 mm and 18.3 mm.