Industries · Paper & packaging
Flowtics for paper & packaging converting. Every reel, every job, every alarm and limit on record.
Flowtics reads the PLC on your sheeters, slitters and converting lines: speed, cycles, sizes, GSM and air pressure, live. Every alarm, every limit crossed and every rule you set is on record. Machine builders see every machine they have sold; factories see every line, shift by shift.
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Paper and packaging converting machines, at customer sites on 4 continents.
Read the storyThe machines
Built for the machines you run.
Converting machines from the reel to the finished pack. If it has a PLC, Flowtics reads it.
Sheeters
Speed, sheet count and reel changes, job by job.
Slitter rewinders
Web speed, tension and every web break.
Corrugators
Line speed, steam and glue temperatures, board metres.
Printing machines
Running time, speed and make-ready between jobs.
Exercise book lines
Books per minute, book size and stacks.
Die cutters
Strokes per minute, sheets and stops.
What Flowtics reads
The numbers your work runs on.
Read straight from the PLC, shown live and kept for reports. If a reading isn’t in your PLC, we tell you on the free visit.
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Speed and cycles
Metres, cycles or books per minute, live, with the average per job and per shift.
- 02
Cut size and book size
The size each job runs at, from the PLC, so every job is on record with its settings.
- 03
GSM
The paper or board GSM of each job, beside its output and waste.
- 04
Sheets per stack
Sheets counted into each stack, and stacks per job.
- 05
Reel diameter and length
Know when a reel runs out before it does.
- 06
Output and waste per job
Sheets, metres or books for each job, and the waste, where the PLC counts it.
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Air pressure and drives
Pneumatic pressure, motor loads and temperatures, with the limit drawn on the trend.
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Alarms and limits
Every machine alarm and every limit crossed, with the time, how long, and what the readings were.
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Rules you set
Conditions such as "speed below the job’s target for 15 minutes", checked at the machine all day.
Alarms and rules
The right person hears first.
You set the limits, and who is told on which channel. These are the alarms teams in this industry usually start with.
- Air pressure low at the pneumatic unitWho hears: Maintenance, then the shift in-chargeWhatsApp
- Web break at the unwinderWho hears: Operator and shift in-chargeApp and SMS
- Reel running out in 10 minutesWho hears: OperatorApp
- Speed below the job’s target for 15 minutesWho hears: Production managerWhatsApp
- Shift report: output, stops and wasteWho hears: Plant headEmail, after every shift
Who it’s for
Whether you build these machines or run them.
If you build them
- See every machine you have sold, at every customer, on one screen.
- Settle "your machine is slow" with the speed and stop data, not an argument.
- Fix most faults by phone: the alarm, the readings and the remedy are in front of your engineer.
If you run them
- Output and waste per reel, per job and per shift, without anyone writing it down.
- Every stop with a reason, so you know which ones cost the most.
- The shift report on WhatsApp or email before you reach the plant.
Book a free visit
See what your own machines can already tell you.
Half a day at your works and an honest written answer. No cost, no obligation.
What happens on the visit
- 01We come to your works
Half a day. We look at two or three of your machines and their PLCs.
- 02We check what Flowtics can read
Which readings, alarms and counters it can pick up, and what they would show you.
- 03You get a written report
With your own numbers. Then you decide: stop there, or start a pilot.
- No cost
- No obligation
- No technical preparation