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