Automated picking and placing system for cold-cuts
Optimize your food production line by implementing a high-speed robotic system that ensures precise picking and placing of various sliced products, enhancing efficiency and maintaining strict hygiene standards.
Automates High-Speed Picking and Placing
The Weber wePICK, with its range of PickRobot models, is an innovative robotic solution designed to optimize and automate the picking and placing process in food packaging lines. Featuring models such as Single, Double, Triple, Quadruple, and SmartPicker, this equipment integrates seamlessly into your production line, handling up to 230 picks per minute. It addresses the needs of food processing companies specializing in products like cheese, cured meats, and vegan alternatives, by ensuring precise placement of sliced goods into packaging. Its flexible automation capabilities support diverse applications, from deli meats to ready meals, enhancing production efficiency while minimizing manual intervention.
This system operates with an IP69 hygienic design, tailored for stringent food industry standards, and ensures optimal food safety. Its application spans industries, including meat and cheese processing, ready meals, and snack packaging, handling solid products like cheddar slices and artisanal baguettes with ease. The robots are PLC-controlled, offer easy integration with existing automation solutions, and support fully automatic, high-speed operations in tight spaces, thanks to its compact design. With its robust stainless-steel construction, maintenance is streamlined, featuring quick-change grippers for minimal downtime, making it a reliable investment for high-demand production environments.
Benefits
- Enhances productivity with high-speed operation, achieving up to 230 picks per minute, thereby optimizing throughput.
- Promotes food safety by reducing human contact during the packaging process.
- Adapts to diverse product types and shapes, supporting multi-variety and multi-layer packaging for versatile production lines.
- Minimizes employee workload through full automation, leading to significant reductions in labor costs.
- Features easy-to-clean design with hygienic, open construction, meeting IP69 standards for sanitation in food processing.
- Applications
- Snacks,Bakery,Cheese,Whole muscle,Cooked ham,Vegan,Bacon,Fish,Sandwich,Raw sausage,Fresh meat,Deli,Pet food,Dried sausage,Convenience,Raw ham,Ready meal,Veggie,Vegetarian/vegan
- End products
- Packaged chicken breasts,Filleted salmon portions,Beef jerky sticks,Salami slices,Artisan baguettes,Pre-packaged vegan burgers,Smoked bacon strips,Cooked ham slices,Pepperoni slices,Microwaveable frozen dinners,Packaged dog food,Snack packs with cheese and crackers,Turkey breast deli slices,Pre-made submarine sandwiches,Sliced roast beef,Plant-based cold cuts,Vegan sausages,Prosciutto,Cheddar slices
- Steps before
- Slicing,Preparation,Scan,Weighing
- Steps after
- Packing,Labeling,Sorting,End-of-Line processing
- Input ingredients
- cold-cuts,sliced goods,cheese,raw ham,bacon,deli,cooked ham,raw sausage,snacks,veggie,vegan
- Output ingredients
- packaged sliced goods,packaging with overlapping portions,multi-variety packaging,multi-layer packaging
- Market info
- Weber Maschinenbau Germany is renowned for its innovative solutions in the food processing industry, specializing in industrial slicing machines and equipment for high-quality meat and cheese processing, offering precision and efficiency to leading global manufacturers.
- Air pressure (bar)
- min. 6
- Compressed air consumption (l/min)
- Standard 140
- Power rating (kW)
- 4 to 8 (depending on model)
- Height (mm)
- 2970
- Maximum load capacity incl. gripper (kg)
- 3
- Infeed output (picks/min)
- 50 to 230 (depending on model)
- Portion turning or correction
- Any angle
- Power supply (V/Hz/A)
- Euro standard plug CEE,16/32 A,200 V– 600 V three-phase current,50/60 Hz
- Width (mm)
- 3017 to 6606 (depending on model)
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / SCADA
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Manual
- CIP/SIP
- CIP 121°C / SIP 135°C
- Energy efficiency
- 0.5–2 kWh/kg moisture
- Biological compatibility
- Yes
- Cleanability
- High,IP69 protection class
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Yes
- IP Protection Class
- IP69
- Machine footprint
- Width 3017 mm - 6606 mm
- Height
- 2970 mm
- Discharge method
- Insertion in the running tray
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen
- Execution Type
- SmartPicker,Single,Double,Triple,Quadruple
- Flexibility in Insertion Tasks
- All insertion tasks
- Touchscreen Operation
- Operable from both sides
- Gripper Type
- Double gripper with quick change device
- Portion Turning/Correction
- Any angle
- Hygienic Construction
- Open design aligned with IP69 protection class