Close-up of a blown film line with the inscription Hosokawa Alpine.

Blown Film Lines

Complete lines and components for blown film production

Design, engineering, development, production and commissioning – we offer you innovative and high-performance blown film lines from one source. With Hosokawa Alpine lines and systems as your manufacturing partner for blown films, you will have a partner you can lean on every step of the way, right from initial trials to final production. We are with you every step of the way. You will ultimately have a final product that meets your current requirements exactly and yet offers the flexibility of adapting it to your future needs.

Highest system availability

by means of high performance components

A sketch with component labeling of the blown film line by Hosokawa Alpine.

(1) Extruder, (2) Screen changer, (3) Die head, (4) Cooling, (5) Take-off, (6) Orientation lines MDO, (7) Winder, (8) System control

Only premium quality components are used in Hosokawa Alpine blown film lines. For you, this translates into: Stable processing and hardly any standstill in your system. Thus, you get the highest performance for your blown film production – provided by a system you can rely on.

Use of our premium quality original components is critical for economical film production. Ranging from high-performance extruders to our user-friendly precision winders. Other outstanding advantages of Hosokawa Alpine systems include one-of-a-kind technologies such as the film die head on the series X for optimum film finishes and very short changeover times, or the TRIO system for ultra-efficient film orientation technology.

Digital solutions from Hosokawa Alpine

For economical and stable production processes

Control monitor of the blown film line by Hosokawa Alpine.

ExVis Extrusion Visualization

Digital systems improve human-to-machine communication, communication among machines, enhanced visualisation, and improved process control. A blown film line can be completely controlled from a screen by the Alpine user interface called ExVis 5.0.

In addition to operating the machine, the control concept, including visualisation and line control, allows evaluation of processes, alarm messages and energy monitoring, etc.

Take a look: ExVis 5.0 »

ISA Intelligent Software Assistant

Isa is a platform to make your production even smarter. The application is used to collect process data from all machines involved in the manufacturing process.

Simple visualization and analysis of process data
Data access via freely confi gurable dashboard: easy to create with drag and drop
Quality control based on historical process parameters
Development of use cases for machine learning algorithms

Display monitor of the blown film line by Hosokawa Alpine.

Functions

Dashboard

Use Isa to display the most important values of one or more lines on a common dashboard. Dashboards can be created or modified easily using drag and drop.

Long term data storage

With Isa you can store your production data for many months. Of course the storage capacity depends on the number of values and their sampling rate. Contact us for more information.

Monitoring display of the Intelligent Software Assistant.

Production monitoring

Monitor your production, evaluate problems and get insides of your data.

Mail notification

You want to get a mail as soon as your line is down? Isa can handle this for you. Create rules like “if throughput is less than 5 kg/h for 5 minutes” and Isa will send you a mail with a screenshot of the corresponding
trend.

Analysis display of the Intelligent Software Assistant.

Analytics

Use basic analytics to get stochastic distribution or compare various trends using a shared time picker

Architecture

The Isa system will be delivered with its own hardware which will be connected to your network. Isa runs on Ubuntu LTS. For a smooth commissionin the configuration is done by Alpine. The Blown film lines will be connected to the same network and the data access is realized via OPC UA. All devices which are connected to the same network (tablet, smartphone, PC,…) can access Isa using an web interface. You just need an internet browser.

Diagram of the network and device connection of the ISA system hardware.

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