Systems from ABB Robotics have been used by system integrator Skinetta for an end of line packaging system for Cederroth’s cosmetic bottles. The system offers a variable, flexible packaging concept for bottles - in any orientation - in the widest variety of shapes and sizes, with and without trays.
Skinetta developed a system, using robots from ABB Robotics, that was built, integrated and acceptance tested at Skinetta’s base in Germany, before the line was commissioned at Cederroth.
The cosmetics bottles, which come in a wide variety of designs and sizes, are presented randomly on a feed belt as they come from a labeller. An IRB1600 robot from ABB Robotics picks up the standing or lying bottles in a wide variety of shapes and positions with its vacuum gripper, depending on the grouping required, and places them in trays or positions them upright onto the running belt of the film wrapping machine. The robot is synchronized with the speed of the belt and conveyor tracking enables production to run continuously without having to pulse-run the belt, resulting in high productivity.
