Secondary packaging is at a turning point
World premier at Interpack for the new generation of packaging systems proposed by the Cama, that has developed a different and original design concept. The result? Greater loading efficiency and flexibility with a magnetic carrier system and robotized loading island in co-flow with a patented software anti-collision system.
The success attained at the world packaging fair that has just drawn to a close vouches for the validity and the cutting-edge effectiveness of the new design and building logic adopted by Cama Group.
In presenting what has been defined the “BTG - Break-Through Generation” at Interpack, the path followed by the Lombard concern (based in the province of Lecco but with branches in Europe, Asia and America) reflects the logic that has fostered Cama’s growth over the years: commercial policies based on respect for the market and the company’s partners, sizeable investments in R&D in order to engineer systems where the company has been able to combine a unique knowhow on packaging machines and robotized systems, a broad offer featuring lean design, accessibility and hygienic construction, where consideration for operator safety is always uppermost.
The innovation that makes the difference
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| Multi-Delta Robot Loading Unit with co-flow loading principle: product feeding conveyor moving in the same direction as the box transport conveyors. |
Co-flow loading
In particular, at Interpack, Cama proposed a robotized loading unit, where 12 Delta robots work according to the patented principle of co-flow loading, that is with the packaging moving in the same direction as the products.
As well as its great efficiency, to be underlined also the reduced footprint of the system, decidedly in line with current demands for reducing machine bulk: thanks to the anti-collision software devised by the Cama software experts in cooperation with the Milan Polytechnic, now patent pending, the Delta robots produced by Cama can work close to each other, sharing the same picking area without any interference.
The optimisation of space and reduction of components and raw materials used has notably reduced the carbon footprint of the Cama robotized island, thus encountering the growing demand from end users for environmentally friendly solutions.
Evermore flexible
With the other system presented at Interpack, the CL 175, Cama proposed a highly innovatory combination between a consolidated technology - that of the cartoning machine - with one of the main new features in the field of automation, the I-track system devised by Jacobs and industrialised by Rockwell Automation.
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| CL175 Packaging System composed by dynamic motion cartoning machine, independent magnetic carriers - iTrack; vertical multiple race track. Product feeding by star wheel system (patent pending). |
The new CL 175 is a highly flexible system; thanks in fact to the use of independent magnetic box carriers, the machine is freed from the constraints of the traditional cartoning machine, the speed of which is tied to the pace and the distancing of the carton throughput.
The new system also offers considerable advantages in terms of speed of format change, that is implemented from the control panel by simply varying the distance between the magnetic carriers, avoiding the usual pocket change operations required by traditional cartoning machines.
The new BTG CL175 system was in line with an SPS (PFM Group) primary packaging unit, equipped with a high speed star-wheel product distribution system, thus offering a new and important device for turnkey packaging lines, while at the same time confirming the benefits of the synergy between the two companies, underway for a considerable time.
