Cama Group: vision for biscuit packaging

Thanks to its Delta Robots with artificial vision, Cama recently installed a complete system for handling flowpacked biscuits either in trays or in piles. The different formats are first loaded into a preglued carton by a high speed continuous motion cartoner, and then the products are top loaded into shipping cases. Versatility, easy change over and reliability are the key words of this Cama installation.

Monoblock loading system

The system was designed to handle multiple different product formats. Biscuits of different dimensions are delivered to the Cama Robotic loading unit on a flat conveyor. Up to 500 biscuits a minute arrive in flowpacked piles of 3 units or in flowpacked trays.

4 Cama Delta robots, driven by artificial vision, check the incoming products, pick them up and place them in the right orientation onto the conveyor of the cartoning machine. The robots create the necessary loading pattern, for instance a multi-portion pack composed by 3x2 piles of biscuits, or a single flow wrapped tray to be loaded into the preglued carton.

The Continuous motion Cartoner, model CL169, side loads the trays or collations of piled biscuits into pre-glued cartons, the flaps closed and sealed by hot melt glue. Speed can range, according to the different products and configuration, up to 150 cartons per minute.

Case packing is done by a Cama IF294: a monoblock unit, which combines case erector, 2-axis top loading unit and case closer in one single structure for the collating of the cartons and loading into shipping cases.

This line is a great example of Cama’s capability to supply turnkey solutions, starting from the vision driven pick & place, integrating with high-speed cartoners and complemented by proven case packing solutions.