Automate intelligently, produce efficiently
Cobot technology for
efficient packaging and production processes
The Schubert Cobot tog.519 is a flexible, AI-driven pick-and-place robot for packaging automation. It takes over monotonous tasks such as filling cartons and trays, loading conveyors or chains, and erecting packaging components – quickly, precisely, and safely.
With its simple operation, high cycle rate, and intelligent vision system, the cobot increases efficiency and process reliability in production lines. Whether in the glass, food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, or confectionery industries, the Schubert Cobot can be flexibly integrated and ensures smooth, cost-effective packaging processes.
Filling boxes and trays
The cobot is ideally suited for quick automation via plug & play when products need to be placed into boxes or trays on a packaging line. The AI-supported vision system recognises both the unsorted products as they are picked up and the environment into which they are to be placed. Formats can be handled extremely flexibly – and this includes the products themselves as well as the boxes and trays. Even entirely new products that the tog.519 sees for the first time can be picked up directly. If the tool doesn’t allow this, it can simply be exchanged. Of course, several robots can also work in parallel in a single line. The number of stations can be adjusted very quickly to seasonal products or short-term production peaks. With its exceptional versatility, the cobot enables extremely agile packing lines.
Loading chains
The cobot can be used to load virtually any type of chain for flexible automated feeding – without the need for further programming. Thanks to fast AI-based image processing, the robot recognises every pitch of the chain, whereby the shape, dimensions and colour of the pitches can vary without any problems. In parallel, the tog.519 picks up the unsorted products to be deposited or directly from the bin. This enables, for example, flowpackers, cartoners, wrapping machines and other systems to be loaded for different tasks. The type of product is virtually irrelevant, because the robot processes food, confectionery, cosmetics or technical articles, among many others, with absolute flexibility. At the same time, the cobot can perform its tasks without having to communicate with the downstream machine.
Setting up packaging materials
The tog.519 can automatically set up not only products, but also the packaging materials themselves. For example, different packaging components such as pucks, jars and bottles can be prepared for a filling process by one cobot and then completed with pumps and lids by another one. Here, too, the AI-supported vision system ensures that the unsorted packaging materials are specifically picked up from the bin or a tray and placed into the desired feeder. It doesn’t matter whether the containers are made of plastic, glass or metal. If required, the intermediate layers between the stacked packaging components can also be removed in this step. Communication with the filling machine is not necessary, but can be implemented if needed – from simple digital signal exchange to integration into the OPC/UA server.
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