Automating bag labelling and stacking for SANO
Labelling bags with declarations by hand was slow and depended on the worker on the line. We built PANDE, an automatic station that picks up unlabelled bags, prints declarations on the fly and stacks the finished bags into a bundle at the output.
Automating bag labelling and stacking for SANO
Labelling bags with declarations by hand was slow and depended on the worker on the line. We built PANDE, an automatic station that picks up unlabelled bags, prints declarations on the fly and stacks the finished bags into a bundle at the output.
Client
SANO
Location
Popovača, Croatia
Industry
Animal feed production
Platform
Siemens SIMATIC HMI panel
Labelling bags by hand was slow and depended on the worker on the line
Unlabelled bags had to be marked with a declaration before leaving the packaging line. This was done by hand, which slowed down throughput and introduced variability depending on the worker at the station.
SANO Popovača needed an automatic station that picks up the bags after filling, prints the declaration directly on the bag on the fly and stacks the finished bags into a bundle - with no stoppages and no manual labelling.
An SMC manipulator for transfer, printing on the fly and automatic bundling
We built PANDE, a station in which SMC pneumatic cylinders bring the unlabelled bags to a lifting table. There, a manipulator on SMC axes picks them up by vacuum and, after positioning with servo axes, places them on a moving belt.
On the belt, a printer prints the declaration directly on the bag as it passes - for us the printer is an external unit to which the machine only sends a print start signal. After printing, the bags are stacked on a second conveyor that counts the set number of pieces and, once it is reached, moves the finished bundle to the end of the line.
A station that picks up, labels and stacks bags with no manual work
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