Cutting Contamination with Bottle Packaging Robots

As you take a sip of your Snap­ple, remem­ber that before it got to you, it had to be bot­tled and pack­aged. More com­pa­nies are turn­ing to bot­tle pack­ing automa­tion to save both mon­ey and time. Automa­tion elim­i­nates the high­ly repet­i­tive motion of pack­ing cas­es for humans, and it pre­vents the pos­si­bil­i­ty for human con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the prod­uct. The qual­i­ty of the pack­ing is also improved.

Motoman pro­vides bot­tle pack, tray pack, bulk uni­tized load, assem­bly, and machine unload cells for bot­tles, and their robots are capa­ble of case erec­tion, pack-out, tap­ing, pal­letiz­ing, and stretch-wrap­ping. Their line con­sists of mate­r­i­al han­dling robots, infeed/​outfeed con­fig­u­ra­tions vac­u­um sta­tions, sheet dis­pensers, bot­tle invert­ers, and bot­tle grip­pers that enhance qual­i­ty and return on invest­ment. Some exam­ples of these robots are the HP20, HP50, IA20, EPL80, EPL160, and DX 1350.

A Motoman HP20F robot was cho­sen by Overveld Pack­ag­ing to pack bot­tles with oil into box­es. The box­es were fed onto the con­vey­or in a fold­ed con­di­tion, and the robot grabs the box and opens it. The pneu­mat­ic plate grip­per picks four oil bot­tles and places them in the box, and this con­tin­ues for fur­ther rows of bot­tles. When the pack­ing process is com­plete, the box moves out of the area and is closed. The sys­tem demon­strates the flex­i­ble man­ner in which dif­fer­ent pack­ing require­ments are accom­mo­dat­ed, as well as the fast output.

Oth­er notable bot­tle pack­ag­ing com­pa­nies are ANVER and Ital­pro­ject. ANVER offers an impres­sive selec­tion of bot­tling pick-up grip­per heads and oth­er bot­tling equip­ment com­po­nents that are inter­change­able with major lines of bot­tling sys­tems. The Robo­max 200 from Ital­pro­ject uses a feed­screw prin­ci­ple, mak­ing it capa­ble of case pack­ing 14,000 bot­tles per hour.

Bot­tle pack­ag­ing robots ensure that bot­tles are packed secure­ly and effi­cient­ly. Robots​.com car­ries a large vari­ety of new and refur­bished bot­tle pack­ag­ing robots. You can select based on your work area, pay­loads, speed, accu­ra­cy, angle, axis, and ver­sa­til­i­ty. Con­tact Robots​.com at 877−762−6881 for more information.