Growing consumer demand for combination/multi-/sampler packs was evident among machine builders exhibiting at interpack. A recurring theme has been OEMs' use of motion control track systems leveraging independently moving cart technologies, magnetically driven, to address the complexity involved with collating multiple different products in different stacks and combinations.
Festoand西门子’联合多载体系统（MCS）项目正在行动COESIA展览，专门针对原始的，以化妆品为中心的机器SACMO. The company required a filling and capping machine with the flexibility to handle increased SKU proliferation. The builder aimed to get different functions with different time scales off of a constrained time increment. SACMO found Festo and Siemens’ MCS, with independently movable carriers, to be the solution.
布拉德曼湖, Rock Hill, S.C., debuted a packaging line composed of a VGR2000 vision-guided robotic pick-and-place line, which loads products into the infeed of an FT120 Multipack Flow Wrapper using two robots. After the required collation has been created and flow wrapped, the products enter the IMSL End Load Cartoner, the company’s latest machine. The compact-footprint IMSL incorporates aRockwell AutomationiTRAK unit to create a fully integrated product infeed system that uses minimal product transfers.
Rockwell还开始展示一个针对较轻负载量身定制的Magnamover Lite运输系统，并应在序列化环境中应用。
A.M.P Rose展示了自己的X-Pax二合一的Flow Pack和Case Packer，并配备贝克霍夫的XTS (eXtended Transport System). The story was the same; AMP Rose customers are looking for ways to handle comparatively complex collation for multipacks. Even upstream food processing companyWeber集中在切片机上的，正在显示其Weber Shuttle System（WSS），针对多包冷切和其他肉类。
