2 robots in 1

The future of pick&place. At Ipack Ima Trascar offers an original solution for handling trays of cold cuts, combined with an integrated viewing system featuring low bulk.

Trascar*, a company headquartered in Bomporto, Modena, has released an innovative solution for the packaging of trays for cold cuts.
The advantage of the solution, called “Thelma”, consists in having a stacker and a single robot capable of picking up the trays, inserting them in the boxes or display cases of  different sizes, in a single operation, with fluid and rapid movements.
This solution overcomes the problems of traditional packaging lines, where usually the movement of the tray is executed by two pick and place robots which, respectively, execute the formation of the stack by picking up a single tray at a time and then the boxing, with great energy consumption and a high chance of errors, large machine dimensions, and a high probability of technical problems.
As well as the “intelligent” grippers, the movements of which are managed by software programmed inside the company, another feature of Thelma is the latest generation viewer for quality control, that checks the precision of the seal, the conditions of the packed product as well as the correct label application.

Reliable and accurate handling.Thelma’s speed is 100 trays a minute (depending on the size). It is, however, in terms of handling and precision that the machines shows major advantages.
The robot can work with trays and boxes of different thicknesses and shapes (with 30 basic programs), and it can handle the packaging whether this arrives straight or reversed.
Trascar developed this solution in the field: two different prototypes were installed and tested for more than six months at the factories of some of the most important Italian cured meat companies. The clients appreciated the benefits of the machine in terms of reliability, easy operation, maintenance, low bulk (the machine takes up about 9 sqm), and have decided to adopt it definitively.     

* TRASCAR SpA A has been operating for decades in the field of industrial automation. It designs and manufactures systems for goods handling (food and non food), at the same time offering solutions for he boxing, palletising and warehouse storage phases. The company has always offered turnkey systems, customised on the basis of the customer’s need. Systems which are the result of a constant development of the products.