Vision guided robotic pick and place system for bakery settings
For manufacturers tackling high-volume, diverse-sized bakery goods, optimize your production line with scalable robotic systems that ensure precise sorting, picking, and packing efficiency.

Handles and Configures Bakery Products Efficiently
The COOKIEBOT from Royal Houdijk is a vision-guided robotic pick and place system expertly designed for bakery production environments. It offers unparalleled flexibility with toolless change-overs and can handle a random supply of products. This system is capable of creating various package configurations, whether you’re working with slugs, piles, or individual items, ensuring efficiency in packaging diversity. The COOKIEBOT system’s vision guidance allows real-time product qualification, efficiently managing flawed items by redirecting them. Its modular design features robots in different reach executions, adaptable grippers to suit product specifics, and an overall control system to optimize loading cycles. Integrating seamlessly into your production line, it can be configured for both direct wrapper infeed and tray loading in multiple orientations, supporting continuous high-speed operations in the food and packaging industries. Available in robust materials to withstand typical bakery conditions, maintenance is streamlined for long-lasting performance. Configurable to project needs, the COOKIEBOT enhances productivity in manufacturing environments focused on biscuits, cookies, and other tray-packed or packaged snacks.
Benefits
- Increases operational flexibility with rapid, toolless change-overs between product types.
- Enhances product handling precision through vision-guided robotic systems.
- Minimizes product waste by efficiently managing disqualified items.
- Boosts production efficiency by supporting high-speed, continuous operation.
- Customizes packaging configurations to meet diverse product demands, from slugs to tray-packed goods.
- Applications
- Cookies,Biscuits,Confectionery,Packaged snacks,Bakery products,Tray-packed goods
- End products
- Granola bars,Sandwich biscuits,Chocolate chip cookies,Puff pastries,Decorated cupcakes,Savory crackers,Gingerbread cookies,Tray-packaged brownies,Tray-packed pastries,Shortbread cookies,Cream-filled snacks,Biscotti,Wafer sticks,Macarons,Packaged donuts
- Steps before
- Product sorting,Supply organizing
- Steps after
- Packing,Wrapper loading,Tray loading
- Input ingredients
- random supply of products,different product types,different product sizes,different product shapes
- Output ingredients
- slugs with or without tray,piles with or without trays,individual products,variety of package configurations,products loaded into infeed of a wrapper,products loaded into trays
- 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.
- Automation
- Vision guided robotic system
- Flexibility
- Toolless changeovers
- Product handling types
- Slugs,piles,individual products
- Product configurations
- With or without tray
- Disqualification system
- Product overflow
- Robot configurations
- 1,2 or 4 overhead positioned robots
- Gripper execution
- Vacuum/venturi,mechanical gripper
- Additional axis on gripper
- 1 or 2 axis
- Multi-pick execution
- Single or multipick
- Loading strategy
- Overall control system
- Module independence
- Independent operating modules
- Reach execution
- Different reach executions available
- Package configurations
- Flat,on edge or shingled trays
- Loading applications
- Infeed of wrapper,trays loading
- Efficiency
- 24/7 robustness
- Maintainability
- Engineered for typical bakery conditions
- Operation ease
- Designed for ease of operation
- Cleanability
- Engineered for cleanability
- Working mechanism
- Robotic Pick,Place
- Flexibility
- Toolless change-overs
- Vision Guidance
- Product qualification/disqualification
- Changeover time
- Toolless
- Product configuration
- Slugs,piles,individual
- Automation level
- High (Multiple independent modules)
- Gripper execution
- Vacuum/venturi,mechanical,single/multipick
- System robustness
- 24/7 operation
- Cleaning method
- Easy cleanability
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Flexibility in product handling
- Toolless change-overs
- Gripper execution
- Vacuum/venturi or mechanical gripper
- Modular configuration
- Customizable
- Product positioning
- Overhead positioned robots
- Feed/discharge method
- Handles a random supply of products
- Execution of gripper
- 1 or 2 additional axis
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen HMI
- Integration possibilities
- Modular design for various configurations
- Gripper execution
- Vacuum/Venturi or mechanical gripper
- Robot reach executions
- Multiple reach options depending on project
- Module configuration
- 1,2,or 4 overhead robots per module
- Product rotation/pivot options
- 1 or 2 additional axes for rotation/pivot
- Loading configurations
- Direct wrapper or tray (flat,edge,shingled)