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Robot Packing Equipment: Food Packaging
Robot Packaging, LLC designs and manufactures vertical or horizontal loading systems designed to load a variety of packaged products directly into containers including: cases, crates, trays, and totes. Robot Packaging offers case and tray loading solutions that are compact, flexible and reliable. Our packers provide multiple secondary functions, including case inspection, product inspection, sorting and distribution, cutting and case coding.
Robot Packaging, LLC's packaging systems utilize high-speed robots that are compact and require minimal installation space. Our systems use an advanced NX100 controller that features a Window CE programming pendant, fast processing, and an easy-to-use INFORM III programming language.
the Finest Food Packing Equipment
Features
- Widest working envelope in its class
- Industry leading + 0.06 mm (+ 0.002") repeatability
- Floor, wall, shelf, and ceiling-mounting options
- Advanced Sigma motors provide powerful, slim design
- Multiple robot control (up to four robots) simplifies programming and eliminates interference
- Various gripper mechanisms for variety of handling applications
- Small footprint reduces floor space
- Web server that allows remote monitoring and diagnosis (optional)
- Motorman III three year warranty
Case Study KR 180 PA : How Hauser, a Producer of Wine-based Beverages, Wine and Iced Tea Benefited from our Food Packaging Equipment
Hauser, a producer of wine-based beverages, wine and iced tea, previously used a layering palletizer to stack its soft packages. An additional capital outlay had become necessary because of rising throughput, and the management wanted to invest in a more flexible solution.
That is why the company opted for a KUKA robot, which can be switched over to new products quickly and easily. While a layering palletize is very time-consuming to convert in such a situation, with a robot all that one has to do in most cases is select the appropriate software program, and, if necessary, exchange the gripper. In addition, setting up a robot at a different location is faster. This user chose a KR 160 PA Long Range robot, which is notable for its exceptionally long reach. As a palletizer, the robot handles soft packages which Hauser loads onto cardboard trays. This involves either twelve 1-liter packages with wine, or eight 1.5-liter packages with iced tea. Two conveyors bring the trays, separated according to package size, from the production area to the robotic cell. First, the carriers are turned by a fixture to a position where they can be gripped properly. When palletizing 1.5-liter packages, the robot, which stands between the two conveyors, stacks per pallet layer two rows of six trays crosswise, and one row of four trays lengthwise. This palletizing pattern is offset from layer to layer, thus producing a stable structure. The KR 160 PA can create stability by means of varying pallet patterns with trays of 1-liter containers, too; with these the robot uses the same fork-shaped gripper to pick up six trays lengthwise. It rotates some of the trays in the gripper to the crosswise direction to achieve the desired layer pattern. For this purpose the end-effector is divided into three sections, each of which can be used by the robot to shift two trays. Another important factor for the stability of the loaded pallet is the high repeatability of the layer pattern that the Long Range robot achieves.
Results and Successes of using Automated Food Packaging Systems
High Flexibility
One of the main features of the robot used here is its high flexibility. The robot works to two sides, alternately stacking two sizes of soft packages on europallets.
Stable Load Units
The method of operation of the independently moveable fork-type gripper makes it possible for the robot to vary the stacking pattern, greatly enhancing the stability of the palletized load.
Low Maintenance Requirements
Another major advantage of the KUKA robot is its low maintenance requirements, which result in significantly less idle time. .
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