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Tasty video: robotic loader on the snack food line
 Video | August 15, 2012

Tasty video: robotic loader on the snack food line

To get a better view of robotic loading done right, watch the fast-but-gentle Propack LJ-Series place snack bars, snack cakes and bagged products into top-load cartons. Propack also manufactures bar distribution and processing systems as well as complete turnkey packaging systems for snack bar and snack cake production.
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For bottle reducers, the EOAT requires a guidepost in addition to the vacuum to ensure they do not fall off the robot head before being seated in the bottle neck.
Machine Case Study
| August 1, 2012

Liquid pharma line requires fast, flexible pick-and-place

Flexibility and fast changeover were top-of-the-list requirements for a robotic pick-and-place unit for a liquid packaging line at Actavis Mid Atlantic LLC, located in Lincolnton, NC.
With the use of smart vision software, the four robots at Ozersky Souvenir accurately and gently pick irregularly shaped chocolates and place them on a separate conveyor at a rate of 360/min.
Machine Case Study
| August 1, 2012

Robot handles chocolates at 360 pieces/min

The Ozersky Souvenir confectionery plant is one of the largest manufacturers of confectionery products in Russia.
Machine Product Brief
| June 28, 2012

Gantry package-handling systems

Festo’s new high-speed T-gantry and H-gantry packaging handling systems provide packing cycle times of 670 milliseconds and are said to be 30% faster than conventional handling systems.
Machine Product Brief
| June 25, 2012

Multi-robot pick & place system

New technology from KEBA makes it possible to achieve a more productive and flexible pick & place system, with lower maintenance and energy costs, thanks to KEBA’s new “Look Ahead Path Planning” feature for multiple robots operating in a shared workspace, which has been added to its established KeMotion Packaging system.
Machine Product Brief
| April 24, 2012

Low-cost, high-speed picker

Stäubli Robotics’ TP80 Fast Picker, an ultrafast four-axis robotic picker for standard pick & place applications, delivers speeds of more than 200 picks/min.
Cama’s added value in secondary packaging applications
 Video | April 16, 2012

Cama’s added value in secondary packaging applications

Cama high tech/speed complete lines and the “Triaflex” robotic system, a single loading unit that may include up to 4 Delta robots. An added value is the customer support offered by the Cama Packaging Division to find the best carton features and styles, according to the technical specifications of each project.
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Machine Product Brief
| March 11, 2012

3 axis + rotation delta robot

Designed for pick and place applications, the D4-1600, three axis + rotation delta robot from Codian Robotics can carry an 8 Kg payload over a 1.6 meter work envelope.
Machine Product Brief
| December 5, 2011

Tray loading system eliminates manual handling of unpackaged food products

JLS Automation’s Heron Tray Loading System is part of the Talon family of packaging automation that eliminates manual handling of unpackaged fresh and frozen food products, including many elements of product inspection.
Hands off! Robotic pick-n-place packaging technology
 Video | September 21, 2011

Hands off! Robotic pick-n-place packaging technology

Shibuya Hoppmann's robotic packaging lines sort and package products using computer processing of product shapes and positions acquired through vision cameras. Here our automated unscrambler sorts eyedroppers at high speed using a robot – technology manufactured to handle a variety of products in the pharmaceutical, household, personal care, and food industries. 
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