Vision-based robotic feeding system
Enhance your production line with precise robotic feeding, optimizing product placement and ensuring seamless integration into high-speed packaging processes.
Sorts and Feeds Products via Image Processing
The Vision Picker from Theegarten-Pactec revolutionizes product sorting and feeding with its integrated image processing system. This equipment is designed to detect, sort, and accurately feed a diverse range of products—from chocolate bars to effervescent tablets—into packaging lines, addressing common challenges faced by food and confectionery manufacturers. Its robotic system operates at a pace of approximately 140 products per minute, ensuring continuity in high-speed, automated operations. The Vision Picker’s versatility allows for the quick adaptation to different product formats, making it indispensable for producers of bouillon cubes, cereal bars, and various confectionery items. The machine’s energy-efficient design and seamless integration with upstream processing lines enhance production efficiency while maintaining product quality. With options for easy access via swivelling guard doors, maintenance is straightforward, supporting uninterrupted plant operations.
Benefits
- Enhances operational efficiency by automating product sorting and placement with high-speed precision.
- Reduces labor costs with its robotically controlled, continuous operating system.
- Supports versatile production needs with quick adaptability to different product formats.
- Minimizes product damage through precise handling facilitated by integrated image processing.
- Simplifies maintenance with easy-access design, ensuring minimal downtime.
- Applications
- Chewy sweets,Soft caramels,Bouillon cubes,Effervescent tablets,Hard candies,Eclairs,Fudge,Chocolate products,Toffee,Cereals,Jelly products,Bubble gum products,Dishwasher tablets,Preformed products,Krówki,Chewing gum
- End products
- Chocolate fudge,Nutty toffee,Vanilla eclairs,Cornflakes,Granola bars,Spearmint chewing gum,Strawberry bubble gum,Beef bouillon cubes,Fruit flavored chewy sweets,Strawberry jellies,Salted soft caramels,Vitamin c effervescent tablets,Marzipan preformed shapes,Lemon dishwasher tablets,Caramel krówki,Peppermint hard candies,Milk chocolate bars
- Steps before
- Product Stream Analysis,Disordered Product Feeding,Manual Feeding,Direct Connection to Production Line
- Steps after
- Continuous Feeding Chain,Packaging,Cross Transfer Station for Chocolate Products,Lane Arrangement for Chocolate Products,Bulk Products Distribution
- Input ingredients
- disordered product stream,various product formats,chocolate products,soft caramels,jelly products,preformed products,hard caramels,chocolate balls and eggs
- Output ingredients
- packaged products,product fed into packaging machine,products placed in feeding chain,continuous product feed,products arranged for packaging
- Market info
- Theegarten-Pactec is known for its expertise in manufacturing highly specialized packaging machines for small-sized confectionery products, offering innovative, flexible, and efficient solutions tailored to various customer needs in the industry.
- Vision System
- Integrated Image Processing System
- Feeding Rate
- Approx. 140 products/min
- Format Flexibility
- Accommodates different product formats
- Automation Level
- Robot-assisted feeding
- System Integration
- Direct connection to production line
- Access Design
- Swivelling guard doors for easy access
- Working mechanism
- Robot feeding with image processing
- Integrated steps
- Image processing and product position detection
- Automation level
- Fully automatic with robotics
- Changeover time
- Flexible and quick for different product formats
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Cleaning method
- Easy access for cleaning due to swivelling guard doors
- Feed method
- Robot system with image processing
- Product format flexibility
- Different product formats
- Swivelling guard doors
- Yes
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Discharge method
- Continuous feeding chain