Picking

Picking falls under primary packaging. This is the activity where the individual items are picked and placed into flow wrappers or cleated conveyors for further packaging. The parts are fed randomly on a conveyor. High speed delta robots working in tandem with vision systems and conveyor line tracking functions are used for this operation. Products such as chocolates, bakery products, meat and small personal care products will be an ideal fit for high speed pick and place applications. Each robot can reach speeds upto 120 picks per minute Multiple robots can be mounted on a Overhead structure and the picking load is distributed between the robots by powerful application software.

Case packaging

Case packaging comes under secondary packaging. High speed filling lines churn out tens of thousands of unit cartons per hour. These need to be aligned and packed into cartons. Typical items include FMCG, pharma, food and industrial products. Multiple operators are required to service high speed filling and primary packaging lines.

1. Automated Carton erectors. These are dedicated and suitable for high speed lines running the same carton type. Only one carton type can be run at the same time. Manual or automatic setting change required for recipe change over.
2. Robotic Carton erectors – These systems are more flexible. One robot can service 3 to 4 lines with a variety of carton sizes. This provides an advantage over dedicated carton erectors.
3. Bottom and top sealers.
4. Product in feed systems and collation conveyors. Both lane type and servo collators are used based on the SKU’s and flexibility required in the system.
5. Robotic grippers. Vacuum, pneumatic and servo grippers can be used. Tool changers can be used if separate grippers are required to handle multiple SKU’s
6. Additional accessories such as online checkweighers, bar code readers and printers can be integrated into the line