Sachet Pick & Place System

Overview

Solutics manufactured a turnkey sachet packing system, capable of handling irregularly delivered product and sorting it into ‘shelf ready’ packaging, ensuring logo placement and sachet positioning was within specific acceptance criteria.

 

The system is capable of inspecting 1,200 parts per minute (10 per second) and uses a bespoke turning and orientating device to ensure that each sachet is correctly positioned before it is placed into final packaging.

Problems

Sachets arrived with no control over orientation, they could also be top/logo up or down. The customer manufactures over 200 different SKU variants, all with different visual and geometric parameters.

Solution

A modular delta pick & place system was installed along with a Solutics orientator that was specifically tailored to the customer’s sachet system. A Neural AI vision system calculated which robot would be best to pick and orientate each sachet in less than 0.01 seconds after the vision system inspected each newly arriving sachet. 

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Final packing of soft bags

Overview

A Chinese manufacturer of ready-mixes for the preparation of a national dish set out to automate the final packaging of the bags, thereby increasing productivity and reducing the physical strain on workers. By installing 16 Stäubli SCARAs, the company easily achieved its objectives.

Problem

Automating the packaging process has enabled the food manufacturer to improve productivity and relieve its employees of repetitive work.

Solution

The packaging line for the hot pot bags has no fewer than 16 Stäubli TS60s. The soft bags arrive on a conveyor belt and the four-axis machine picks them up four at a time with vacuum grippers and places them in a box. This is repeated eight times, as each box contains 32 bags. The cycle time of a single robot is approximately 2.7 seconds. Production speed is currently a continuous 90 packs per minute. This means production capacity can be significantly increased in order to easily manage a further increase in demand.

  • Reduction of physical strain on employees
  • Increased productivity Capacity can be readily increased
  • High level of reliability and availability
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