Pester USA (PELV booth N-10328) is introducing ‘pac robot’ modules using ELAU’s new PacDrive robotic software library to expand the flexibility and throughput of pharma, cosmetics and food packaging lines.

The pac robot 3 will be demonstrated with a PEWO-pack 450 Compact bottle wrapper for the health & beauty care industry (e.g. shampoo bottles). Continuous product guidance allows gentle handling of up to 300 unstable bottles per minute.

As bottles are discharged from the labeler, they enter the collating unit where the pac robot 3 picks two sets of 6 bottles, indexes them 90° and places them on the wrapper’s infeed belt. Bottles are inserted into the servo-controlled, single-lane sealing unit at up to 50 cpm, and wrapped and sealed in PE film before entering the new PEWO-therm shrink tunnel.

The new pac robot 4 is the heart of a top-loading robotic cell. The robots can also be integrated in third party machines.

At April’s Interpack show, a pac robot 4 loaded cartons into trays produced by a thermoformer. A vision system communicated the cartons’ orientation to an ELAU PacDrive controller, which performed the calculations for the robot to precisely pack the trays at speeds up to 100 cycles per minute.