Save time with a high-performance robotic palletizing system

STATEC BINDER’S PRINCIPAL-R is a high-performance robot palletizer. This palletizing system is highly reliable owing to the prowess of the robot manufacturers. The robot palletizing system uses articulated arm robots with four axes and a rotation of up to 360° in the R-axis. It is particularly suitable for palletizing and depalletizing applications due to its fast and repeatable movement, ensuring a high output in the shortest cycle time. The operation and selection of the pallet patterns are carried out simply via a touch screen. The set-up variants range from a single to a double to a multiple line arrangement.

It can carry out about 1400 cycles per hour. It uses different robot models depending on the desired performance, thus making it highly flexible. The gripper can be tailored according to your application. These include finger, container, or vacuum grabs, as well as customer-specific grabs, depending on the type of bag. It is also optimized for sling bags.

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Handles, Loads, and Unloads Packaging Containers

CFT Group’s Robotic Handling Systems are a versatile solution designed to enhance beverage and food packaging processes. These systems excel at seamlessly integrating into continuous and automated production lines, addressing the challenges of high-speed material handling. Featuring customizable configurations, they efficiently handle various container types, including juice bottles, tomato sauce jars, and energy drink cans. With a maximum capacity of 360 containers per hour, these systems utilize advanced robotics for precise recognition and handling, reducing manual intervention and improving safety. Equipped with reliable components for easy maintenance, CFT’s robots offer universal grippers, eliminating the need for format changes. Ideal for diverse applications, these robotic solutions accommodate solid and liquid products, ensuring streamlined operations in beverage manufacturing and food processing industries.

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Automates Handling and Packing of Diverse Bag Formats

The robotic case packers from CFT Group are engineered to optimize your food packaging line by efficiently automating the handling and packing of diverse bag formats. These systems excel in integrating seamlessly into existing operations, ensuring full automation driven by programmable logic control (PLC) systems. Suitable for processing fruits, sauces, jams, and vegetables, the equipment handles up to 2,400 containers per hour. Utilizing a 3D vision module, it guarantees precise bag placement in different carton styles and includes automatic rejection of non-compliant items. Designed with modularity, additional robots can be integrated, enhancing productivity. The equipment also achieves energy efficiency with automatic head changes and improved motor controls, promoting sustainability with reduced operational costs. Built with safety compliance in mind, all electrical systems are contained within the structure, supporting smooth and reliable performance in demanding environments.

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Places Multiple Bags in Totes Efficiently

The Triple PaperBagger from Niverplast is engineered to efficiently automate the placement of multiple paper bags in a single tote or bin, featuring a modular design that enhances productivity across various industries including bakery, meat, and e-commerce. This machine utilizes a motorized spreading mechanism for precise bag opening and positioning, ensuring seamless integration into continuous, high-speed packaging lines. With its compact dimensions and modular set-up, the Triple PaperBagger operates independently or within automatic production systems, handling up to 12-14 totes per minute in a 24/7 production environment. The machine’s construction allows for right or left-handed configurations, accompanied by an HD visual interface for operational monitoring. It offers significant customization options, fitting diverse production needs, while its low maintenance design guarantees cost efficiency. Furthermore, Niverplast provides comprehensive engineering support and adaptable financing solutions, including leasing and per-bag payment plans, ensuring accessibility for all businesses seeking packaging automation.

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Sterilizes Heat and Moisture Sensitive Products

The GEE Ethylene Oxide (EO) Sterilizers from Getinge are tailored for healthcare facilities and manufacturers requiring precise sterilization of heat and moisture-sensitive products. This system utilizes a low-temperature EO process capable of sterilizing packed and palletized goods efficiently, preserving packaging integrity and product properties.

Equipped with a PLC automation system (Allen Bradley or Siemens), these sterilizers are designed for seamless integration into your production line with centralized SCADA support for comprehensive monitoring. The flexible data storage and monitoring capabilities cater to specific processing requirements, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Primarily serving the pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare equipment industries, these sterilizers are instrumental in processing surgical sutures, catheters, implantable devices, and electronics like circuit boards. The equipment runs automated and high-speed batch operations suitable for solid and gas product types.

These sterilizers are built with safety in mind, featuring compliance with ATEX regulations and employing redundant safety measures. The chamber design includes a dual gasket for airtight sealing, even in varying pressure conditions, supported by external vaporization of liquid EO.

GEE sterilizers boast components for effective load handling without operator entry into the EO chamber, while also allowing customization to your facility layout and workflow. The system’s robust vacuum pumps facilitate rapid EO removal, and the chamber recirculation system ensures optimal gas and temperature distribution for reliable sterilization results, supporting a safe and efficient sterilization process across various applications.

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Automates Cage Handling, Washing, and Sorting

The Getinge Cage Handling System is a sophisticated robotic solution designed for seamless integration into vivarium and biomedical research facilities. This system combines industrial robotics with tunnel washers to automate the handling, washing, and sorting of laboratory animal cages, significantly minimizing operator exposure to allergens and improving ergonomics. Ideal for biomedical research, laboratory animal care, and pharmaceutical production, it processes laboratory animal cages, racks, and sterile lab equipment with minimal human intervention.

Utilizing conveyors and sorting tables, the system operates continuously, providing high-speed throughput with capabilities to run 24/7. Each robotic unit can handle up to four cages simultaneously, optimizing processing efficiency. Designed with robust construction, it incorporates safety barriers and automatic adaptive grippers to manage different cage sizes and models effortlessly.

Its automation integrates with existing processes through PLC control, offering remote monitoring options, enhancing both energy efficiency and operational oversight. Compliant with industry standards for clean and sterile environments, the Getinge Cage Handling System supports continuous improvement through customization options and comprehensive engineering support, tailored to the unique needs of various research and laboratory operations.

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Packs and Manipulates Pharmaceutical Products

The SP Robot Manipulator from Tecnicam is engineered for pharmaceutical and packaging environments, offering a robust solution for precise and efficient packing of solid products. This versatile equipment utilizes intermittent motion to seamlessly integrate into various production lines, managing tasks such as blister packing, strip packaging, and bottling of liquids.

Capable of handling applications that range from pharmaceuticals to nutraceuticals, the SP is adept at processing blister packs for tablets, syringe packing, and carton display boxes for dietary supplements. It ensures consistent and reliable operation with its robotic manipulation capabilities, tailored to optimize production flow and reduce manual handling.

The SP is designed to comply with industry standards, ensuring GMP and FDA compliance for pharmaceutical settings. With an option for programmable logic control (PLC), this machine offers automation with precision while enabling remote monitoring capabilities for enhanced oversight. It also boasts energy efficiency through optimized motor control, aiding in reducing operational costs. Material options like stainless steel ensure long-lasting performance with resistance to corrosion, making it ideal for environments that demand high durability and hygiene.

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Handles and Configures Bakery Products Efficiently

The COOKIEBOT from Royal Houdijk is a vision-guided robotic pick and place system expertly designed for bakery production environments. It offers unparalleled flexibility with toolless change-overs and can handle a random supply of products. This system is capable of creating various package configurations, whether you’re working with slugs, piles, or individual items, ensuring efficiency in packaging diversity. The COOKIEBOT system’s vision guidance allows real-time product qualification, efficiently managing flawed items by redirecting them. Its modular design features robots in different reach executions, adaptable grippers to suit product specifics, and an overall control system to optimize loading cycles. Integrating seamlessly into your production line, it can be configured for both direct wrapper infeed and tray loading in multiple orientations, supporting continuous high-speed operations in the food and packaging industries. Available in robust materials to withstand typical bakery conditions, maintenance is streamlined for long-lasting performance. Configurable to project needs, the COOKIEBOT enhances productivity in manufacturing environments focused on biscuits, cookies, and other tray-packed or packaged snacks.

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Optimizes Cookie Picking, Placing, and Packing

The Cookiebot by Royal Houdijk is a vision-guided robotic pick and place system designed for bakery producers and confectionery manufacturers. It excels in handling a diverse array of cookie types with precision and flexibility, addressing the need for efficient product qualification and disqualification. This system utilizes multiple independently operating modules, each equipped with 1 to 4 overhead robots that can be tailored with different reach capabilities. The gripper can be customized to rotate products or perform single/multi-pick executions using either vacuum/venturi or mechanical methods. The Cookiebot seamlessly integrates into existing production lines with an overall control system optimizing loading cycles to ensure high throughput and continuous high-speed operation. Built specifically for the food and bakery industries, it is engineered to withstand typical bakery conditions, supporting robust performance with easy maintenance, cleanability, and tool-less changeovers.

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Picks, Places, and Loads Bakery Products

The COOKIEBOT from Royal Houdijk revolutionizes bakery production with its vision-guided, flexible robotic Pick & Place system. Uniquely designed for the bakery sector, it efficiently handles a variety of baked goods, including cookies, croissants, and doughnuts. This system features a multi-robot setup, each equipped to operate in three axes for precise positioning, with grippers customizable for vacuum or mechanical handling. It supports high-speed continuous operations by employing an advanced vision system for accurate product inspection and sorting, ensuring only qualified items proceed to packaging. Tailored for seamless integration with existing packaging lines, COOKIEBOT reduces downtime with effortless tool-less changeovers between product types and sizes. Built to withstand 24/7 bakery environments, it emphasizes maintainability and cleanability, offering CIP options to ensure hygiene standards are met. The system’s modular design allows adaptation to specific production needs, enhancing throughput and efficiency, making it a vital component for food processing companies and confectionery manufacturers aiming to optimize their packaging lines.

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