July August hi-res with ads

www.machineryupdate.co.uk July/august 2018 MACHINERY UPDATE 49
Feature: Name here
to be handled. Also, if it is a variety pack
being produced, all five flavours have to
be facing upwards on the top row when
the case is opened.
Cama says most of its delta-style
systems like this load directly from
a Cama race track or vision conveyor
belt into a case or carton, but here each
product variety has to be visible on every
layer. The only way to achieve that is to
first create the sequences of all flavours
with the first ten robots and then use the
last three robots to pick and place each
layer into the cases.
Interestingly, no vision system is
needed to send pack location information
to the robotic pickers as all necessary
location information is in each recipe’s
software program. So each of the ten toteunloading
robots knows precisely which
flight it needs to put an item into and the
three case-loading robots know precisely
which flight they need to pick from
each time.
Because so many varieties of primary
Six Cama IT 285 systems are joined by a Cama IG 270 where 13 delta-style robots are housed
packs – not just bars in three sizes but
also folding cartons and even flexible
packs – are being picked and placed into
the corrugated variety packs, the flights
in the dual-lane conveyor have to be
completely adjustable.
Empty plastic totes drop onto a
conveyor belt beneath the Cama IG 270
and are conveyed to a station where they
are manually palletised. These pallets
are then positioned next to one of the six
Cama tote loaders, and an operator loads
them into the tote loader as needed.
T 01793 831111
W www.camagroup.com
Chicago-based World’s Finest Chocolate has invested in robotics to better handle its entire range
The equipment has to handle
World’s Finest Chocolate’s
23 different combinations of
primary packaging formats