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Variety pack cell

Blueprint Automation offers its Variety Pack Cell, a completely automated system to assemble a variety pack of multiple types of product.

Oct 30, 2006
System feeds and accumulates a continuous stream of product to a robot that places the product into the variety pack, one product/robot. This machine operates at 150 packs/min for one robot cell.
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