Food & Drink Processing & Packaging Issue 50 2024 | Page 30

Simply place a new product on the belt and you ’ re ready to go – this is how quickly the tog . 519 cobot from Schubert can now change formats .

Simple , flexible automation – beyond the machine

Packaging machine manufacturer Schubert presents its production-ready cobot

Strong competition and falling margins are putting pressure on manufacturers of consumer goods to improve the efficiency of their packaging processes . Most often , the solution is automation . With the new cobot from Schubert , which is now ready for series production , its ’ capabilities can be implemented from the very start of a packaging machines infeed – with exceptional flexibility and without requiring any programming effort .
Until now , automation processes for the packaging of food , confectionery , cosmetics and
30 FDPP - www . fdpp . co . uk similar products have for the most part been limited to the packaging machine itself . Feeding is often done manually , because processes such as placing products from a crate onto a belt , separating them , orienting them correctly or sorting them are quite complex and rarely cost-effective to automate . With the development of its tog . 519 cobot , Schubert now has a new , extremely flexible and very easy-to-operate solution at hand that takes consumer goods manufacturers a decisive step forward .
Pick & place with a high cycle rate when picking unsorted product
The Schubert cobot is designed for high-performance pick & place applications with lightweight products : At up to 90 cycles per minute , the tog . 519 picks up a wide variety of products or packaging materials from the crate or conveyor and places them in any conceivable target destination – without the need for complex programming with only the tool needing to be matched to the product . Benjamin Brand , responsible for sales and integration in Schubert ’ s Cobot