System film
We present a packaging line for the food industry.
Toothed-belt shuttles
Baking trays are inserted into toothed belt shuttles
Separation system
The cakes meet the separation system
Side guide belt
The cakes are aligned on the side guide belt
Robotic cell
The cakes pass through the robot cell and are scanned by a 3D sensor
Tracking
Cakes are tracked and the side-tilted cakes are set up.
Sheet metal gripper
Sheet metal gripper for removing the sheets from the tray trolley
Pick and Place
Pick and Place from Madeleines
Benefits
Starting point
Until now, cakes in a wide variety of shapes were sorted by hand, aligned and manually placed in a form-fill-seal machine for packaging. The cakes in particular come out of the cooler partly lying on their sides on a conveyor belt after baking. The madeleines are filled into blister packs on a second, aging machine.
Solution
We developed a packaging system for the customer for all types of cakes. This includes the automatic separation and alignment using our conveyor technology and the positioning of the cakes and filling of the Madeleines into blisters with vacuum technology and two robots. The subsequent packaging with a horizontal form-fill-seal machine is the last step of our complete system.
Advantages for the customer
- More production space due to the smaller plant
- Autonomy in the Madeleines feed was increased
- Some process steps became superfluous thanks to our system and could be completely eliminated
- Fully automatic packaging of the cakes
