Paper converting plant, including means for producing logs of paper material starting from one or more paper webs fed by corresponding reels, an embossing unit, a bridge crane with arms provided with grippers, and a rewinder that produces logs using the webs coming from the embossing unit, wherein the embossing unit is arranged to be configured in a first use configuration in which one or more embossing rollers positioned inside it are stably locked to respective support means and a second removal configuration in which said one or more embossing rollers are disengaged from said support means and can be extracted from the embossing unit, the plant also includes a storing unit in which are stored one or more embossing rolls according to a predefined storage order such that each embossing roller occupies a predetermined position in the same storage unit, each embossing roller having a respective longitudinal axis.

Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for supplying, staging, and/or handling, and/or for replacing rolls (12, 20) with flat material and/or film material wound thereonto and serving as packaging material (22) for packaging piece goods, bundles, or the like sets of articles. Depleted rolls (20) are removed from at least one installation position (EB1, EB2) of a packaging machine (14), and new rolls (12) are mounted into the particular installation position (EB1, EB2), with new rolls (12) being staged to the packaging machine (14) in a specified feeder device. Each of the installation positions (EB1, EB2) of the packaging machine (14) includes at least one rotatable receiving mandrel (70) for the rotatable reception and holding of the rolls (12). The at least one receiving mandrel (70) is shiftable in its axial direction upon removing a depleted roll (20) and/or upon mounting of a new roll (12).

System for handling cardboard reels to feed machines that produce cardboard tubes, comprising a station (F) for picking up the reels configured to receive a stack (2) of overlapping cardboard reels (1), a station (U) for unwinding of the reels, and handling means (D) for moving the reels (1) along a predetermined path. The means (D) for moving the reels comprise pneumatic means intended to pressurize a space (S) inside the stack of reels, in which said space includes the interface between an uppermost reel of the stack and the underlying reel, and gripping means configured and controlled to perform grip and release of the highest reel in the stack respectively.

A web unwinding and splicing system includes a turret unwind having a turret arm with rotatable shafts at opposing ends thereof to unwind a running web of an expiring web material roll and unwind a waiting web of a new web material roll. A web splicing unit operable with the turret unwind includes a web deflection device that bumps the running web onto the waiting web to splice the running web with the waiting web and a cutting device that selectively severs the running web, thereby creating a leading portion of the running web that is spliced to the waiting web and a trailing portion of the running web that remains separate from the waiting web. A vacuum system is positioned proximate the running web to suction in the trailing portion of the running web left on the expiring web material roll.

A transfer apparatus for a material for an electrode according to an embodiment of the disclosed technology includes an apparatus body; a gripping device configured to grip a reel wound around a current collector; a first moving device connected to the gripping device and the apparatus body and configured to move the gripping device; a position changing device configured to rotate the reel when the reel is seated; and a first discharge device disposed on one side of the apparatus body and configured to discharge the reel to the outside of the apparatus body when the rotated reel is seated.

A splicing tape management system includes, in executing properly the management of a time limit of a splicing tape, a first storage section configured to store an identification code of a splicing tape for splicing a first carrier tape and a second carrier tape together and a usable time limit of the splicing tape while associating them with each other, and a management section configured to manage the use of the splicing tape based on the identification code and the usable time limit that are stored in the first storage section. The usable time limit is a timing when the use of the splicing tape is to be halted, the timing being determined based on a production time and a usable period after production of the splicing tape or based on a starting time in use and a usable period after starting time of the splicing tape.

The present invention includes: a transportation device including a roll holding shaft extending in a predetermined direction from a distal section of an arm to hold a roll in a state of being inserted into a core member of the roll; and a mounting section disposed within a moving range of the roll holding shaft, the mounting section allowing the roll to be mounted in a state where both ends of an axial direction of the core member of roll are open. The transportation device mounts the roll on the mounting section, the roll holding shaft is pulled out from the core member of the roll mounted on the mounting section to one side of an axial direction of the core member, and the roll holding shaft pulled out from the core member is inserted into the core member from the other side of the axial direction.

A factory for manufacturing an absorbent article includes a building that includes an upper story and a lower story located below the upper story. The upper story and lower story include a floor, a wall provided along an entire periphery of the floor, an illumination device provided on a ceiling, and an air conditioner having an air outlet for discharging air, respectively. An opening is formed in the floor of the upper story. The upper story includes a paying-out device to which a material coil on which a nonwoven fabric is wound is attached and that pays out the nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric serves as at least one type among a plurality of types of materials. The lower story includes a processing section that processes the plurality of types including the nonwoven fabric that is transported from the upper story through the opening.

Systems for providing efficient manufacturing of paper, sheet, and/or box products of varying size and structure, often with pre-applied print (pre-print), are provided herein. Efficient customer ordering/tracking, job aggregation, print imposition, corrugator planning, and tracking and adjustments throughout the manufacturing process are contemplated. A reel editor is configured to edit the roll based on waste and/or errors that occurred during various manufacturing processes (e.g., during printing). A control plan defining what is on each roll of printed web product may be updated after editing. Depending on the configuration, the reel editor may be integrated with various manufacturing components. The reel editor may be configured to determine if there is enough waste on the roll to even making editing worthwhile, such as based on desired quality of the images, customer requirements, different price points, among other possible factors.

The method provides for detecting a temporary stop request by a machine of the line, for example to replace a member subject to wear or a consumable. In view of this stop, the speed of the line is modulated so as to increase, for example, the level of filling of an accumulator, and makes sure that the subsequent temporary stop has a minimum effect on the overall productivity of the line.