Products: pears, apples, fennel, tomatoes, carrots, kiwis etc...

Features: after being successfully used in other sectors, this industrial robot applied to the greengrocery sector preserves product integrity and quality while increasing production and work shifts over 24h.

Production: the system reaches a maximum speed of 120 INDIVIDUAL products LOADED PER MINUTE, with a weight of 2 kg.

Appliance description:

The product arrives on the belt in bulk (pre-calibrated or otherwise), then reaches the robot having a digital videocamera which identifies the individual units.

The robot, provided with a dedicated suction pick-up system (OR OTHER PICK-UP SYSTEM DEPENDING ON THE PRODUCT), with optional rotation, transfers the product from the belt and

arranges it in the correct position, either inside a cell-moulded box, a tray, or directly onto the feed belt of the flow-pack wrapping machine.

In some cases the robot is able to identify faulty products and eliminate them before packaging.

The system has been designed to allow several robots to be incorporated within the same packaging line, using a single interface for programming and managing the process (example: insertion of pears in double-layered cell-moulded boxes).

System advantages

Cost cutting deriving from:

reduced personnel, reater line productivity,increased work shifts

Product handling free of contamination

Additional product quality control

Possible use of various types of final packages

Extremely rapid format change