Hi-tech biscuits

A vision driven turnkey line for biscuits packaging: a complete and complex solution devised by the Cama Group.

Thanks to its Delta Robots with artificial vision, Cama supplied a complete system handling flowpacked trays of biscuits or flowpacked biscuits in piles, the different formats are first loaded into a preglued carton by a high continuous motion cartoner, and then, the selling units are top loaded in shipping cases.
Versatility, easy change over and reliability are the key words of this Cama installation.
The system was designed to handle 7 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 a flowpacked pile of 3 units or in flowpacked trays.

4 Cama Delta robots, driven by artificial vision, check the incoming products pick up and place them in the right orientation into the conveyor of the cartoning machine. The robots are creating the needed loading pattern, for instance a multi-portion pack composed by 3x2 piles of biscuits, to be loaded into the preglued carton.
The Continuous motion Cartoner, model CL 169, is side loading the trays or group of piled biscuits into preglued trays. Speed is varying, according to the different products and configuration, form 80 to 150 cartons per minute.
After the selling unit are filled and closed by hot melt, they get collated and top loaded into shipping cases.
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.
This line is great example of Cama’s capability to supply turnkey solutions, starting from the vision driven pick & place, going through high-speed cartoners and ending with case packing.