- New control platform streamlines operation and helps users to comply with GAMP and 21 CFR Part 11
- Increased reliability due to no mechanical or moving parts
- Flexibility allows combination with either with a Rexroth, Siemens or Allen Bradley IO rack

Tevopharm B.V., a Bosch Packaging Technology Company, has unveiled a new state of the art control platform on its Pack-2000(BM) flow wrapping machine at Achema 2006. The Pack 2000 is ideal for wrapping products such as bottles, syringes, vials, blisters and inhalers.

The architecture of this new control platform helps users to comply with regulations such as GAMP and 21 CFR Part 11. For example, the new control platform combines functions for motion and logic into one controller increasing reliability through fewer parts and components. Also, the embedded controller has no mechanical or moving parts offering users easy maintenance and increased reliability.

The new controller is also highly flexible and can be combined, either with a Rexroth, Siemens or Allen Bradley IO rack.

Connectivity is another benefit for users with features such as flashdisk data storage as well as on board UPS data storage. No special programming software or hardware is required and knowledge of only one software language is required in accordance with IEC61131. This further reduces the cost of maintenance.

Contact person for press inquiries:
Patrick Farinato
Manager Communication
Bosch Packaging Technology Division

Bosch Packaging Technology
Sigpack International AG
Rheinstrasse 36
CH-8212 Neuhausen am Rheinfall
Tel: +41 52 674-6228
Fax: +41 52 674-6350
Email: patrick.farinato@sigpack.com
Internet: www.bosch.com/pa

The Bosch Group is a leading global manufacturer of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology. In fiscal 2005, some 250,000 associates generated sales of 42 billion euros. Set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as ``Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering,`` the Bosch Group today comprises a manufacturing, sales, and after-sales service network of some 270 subsidiaries and more than 12,000 service centers in over 140 countries.

The special ownership structure of the Bosch Group guarantees its financial independence and entrepreneurial freedom. It makes it possible for the company to undertake significant up-front investments in the safeguarding of its future, as well as to do justice to its social responsibility in a manner reflective of the spirit and will of its founder. 92 % of the shares of Robert Bosch GmbH are held by the charitable foundation Robert Bosch Stiftung. The entrepreneurial ownership functions are carried out by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG.

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