The organic oat biscuits are among Lambertz’ s strategically important products. They are available with and without various chocolate coatings.
Right from the outset: Cardboard trays and upright oat biscuits
Schubert developed a compact Pickerline for Lambertz with twelve T5 pick & place robots in a delta configuration as well as a doublesided tray conveyor to automate packaging of the well-known oat biscuits. Schubert met Lambertz’ s request for greater sustainability by ensuring that, in the future, the new packaging line would be able to process plastic trays as well as environmentally friendly cardboard trays, which only need to be slotted together and therefore do not require glue. The tray loading station is already set up to handle this. A new format, whereby the oat biscuits are no longer packaged horizontally but vertically, was also taken into account and developed from the outset. The Pickerline is therefore equipped with a swivelling chain conveyor that allows the products to be placed upright in the trays.
An automated packaging process with a high output
Lambertz is currently using the new Pickerline for its oat biscuits in the classic format. The oat cookies come out of the cooling tunnel and are transferred onto the product conveyor in multiple lanes. Reflected light scanners, with the help of their software, detect the position and contour of the products. At the same time, the data is transmitted to the T5 robot control system. The trays for the oat biscuits are located in two fourlane magazines. An F3 denesting robot takes the trays from each of these and an F2 robot then picks them up and places them onto the chain conveyors. The two conveyors transport the plastic trays to the pick & place robots’ work area, with the trays being transported lengthwise. These conveyors can also be swivelled for future product variants and formats, as requested by Lambertz.
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