Robotic pick and place system for cookies
Streamline your bakery production with a flexible robotic system that seamlessly picks, places, and loads various products, adapting to different shapes and sizes without the need for tool changes.
Sorts, Loads, and Places Bakery Products
The Cookiebot – Four in One from Royal Houdijk is a highly flexible, vision-guided robotic pick and place system designed specifically for the food and bakery industries. This innovative system handles a variety of bakery products such as cookies, pastries, and chocolate bars, offering tool-less changeovers between different product types, sizes, and configurations.
The Cookiebot system works by using multiple independent operating modules, each equipped with one to four pick and place robots capable of swift movements across the X, Y, and Z axes. The robots are equipped with customizable grippers that support either vacuum or mechanical pick-up methods, facilitating single or multi-pick executions. This allows for precise loading into trays, flow-wraps, or cavity setups.
The system’s automated control features ensure seamless integration into high-speed production lines, delivering continuous 24/7 operation with robust performance. Engineered with easy maintenance and cleanability in mind, the Cookiebot aligns with typical bakery conditions, enhancing overall efficiency and operational longevity. This vision-guided system also includes inspection capabilities, automatically sorting and redirecting disqualified products, thus maintaining consistent product quality and line efficiency.
Benefits
- Increases production flexibility with quick, tool-less changeovers between diverse product configurations.
- Enhances operational efficiency with 24/7 reliable performance and minimal supervision.
- Optimizes product quality control by auto-sorting defective items through vision guidance.
- Reduces downtime with easy-to-clean design, tailored for demanding bakery environments.
- Decreases labor dependence with multi-axis robotic precision and automated loading processes.
- Applications
- Snacks,Confectionery,Packaged food,Sweets,Bakery products
- End products
- Cookies,Biscuits,Wafer snacks,Energy bars,Granola bars,Wrapped buns,Toffee,Marzipan chocolates,Crackers,Chocolate bars,Packaged pies,Pastries,Nougat,Cupcakes,Biscotti,Sweet rolls
- Steps before
- Product Sorting,Product Inspection
- Steps after
- Flow-wrap Packaging,Tray Packaging,Cavity Tray Arrangement
- Input ingredients
- random supply of product,different product types,different product sizes,different product shapes
- Output ingredients
- Slug direct in flow-wrap,Pile direct in flow-wrap,Slug in tray,Pile in tray,Product on edge in cavity tray
- Market info
- Houdijk is known for designing and manufacturing advanced handling and processing equipment for the biscuit and bakery industry, specializing in automated systems to improve efficiency and maintain product quality.
- Robotic Pick,Place
- Vision guided
- Product Handling
- Toolless changeover
- Loading Positions
- Multiple configurations
- Operating Flexibility
- 24/7 robustness
- Robot Axis
- 3-axis (X,Y,Z) + 2-axis (rotate,pivot)
- Automation
- Controlled by an overall system
- Product Gripping
- Vacuum/venturi or mechanical
- Efficiency
- Overall system efficiency assured
- Working mechanism
- Vision guided robotic Pick,Place
- Integrated steps
- Pick,Place module,multiple robot configuration
- Changeover time
- Toolless change-overs
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous operation
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled,vision guided
- Cleaning method
- Easy cleanability
- Robustness
- 24/7 operation capability
- Cleanability
- High
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm (example value)
- Machine footprint
- Compact design adaptable to available space
- Gripper execution
- Vacuum/venturi or mechanical,single/multipick
- Pick,Place robot reach
- Various executions
- Gripper type
- Vacuum/venturi,mechanical
- Number of Pick,Place robots
- 1,2,or 4
- Toolless changeovers
- Yes
- Gripper axis
- 2 additional axis for rotate and pivot
- Handling configurations
- Slug direct in flow-wrap,Pile direct in flow-wrap,Slug in tray,Pile in tray,Product on edge in cavity tray