INTRODUCTION EXP7

In this experiment packaging sector for food and a variety of other products, vertical form fills
sealing machines are a type of automated assembly-line product packaging method. While
employed at the Henry Heide Candy Company, the technology's creator, Walter Zwoyer, patented
his concept for the VFFS machine in 1936. [1] The device creates plastic bags and stand-up pouches
from a flat roll of film while also filling and closing the filled bags. This packaging technology can be
used to package both solids and liquids.

The term "vertical form fill seal machine" (sometimes known as a "VFFS machine") refers to a type of
vertical packing machine that is typically used for solid or liquid goods. In the packaging sector for
food and other products, vertical form fills sealing machines are a prevalent type of automated
assembly-line product packaging equipment. A standard machine has a continuous, flat roll of plastic
film that can be used to create bags for packaging items. The entire process of bag formation,
weighing, filling, sealing, cutting, and counting can be completed mechanically by the machine.
There are three types of packaging material: powder, grains, and liquid.

To do this, the VFFS machine feeds the film over a forming tube, which forms the film into the right
bag size and closes the bottom as well as the vertical seam where the two edges of the film meet.
The width of the bag is related to the design of the forming tube, and the length is finally managed
by the bagging machine. An operator can easily insert a new forming tube to change to a new bag
width. There are numerous kinds of seals, but the two most common kinds are the lap seal and the
fin seal. In a lap seal, the back of the film is used to seal the two film edges that overlap. In the
consumer products sector, a number of packaging applications are carried out using vertical form,
fill, and seal (VFFS) machines. Different things are put into shaped pouches and then sealed,
including salt, biscuits, cake, wrapped chocolates, tea, sugar, spices, snack foods, wafers, detergent,
and pet meals. Plastic that can be heat-sealed often makes up the flexible pouch material. Glue is
sometimes used to seal paper.

OBJECTIVE

 To operate the automatic vertical packing machine in a correct way

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