Industrial robot picker for automatic packaging
Streamline your food packaging line with high-speed robotic picking, ensuring precise loading and reduced downtime through advanced gripper technology and dynamic buffering, all while seamlessly integrating with existing systems for enhanced operational efficiency.
The GEA OptiRobot 6000 from GEA is a cutting-edge robot picker specifically designed for high-speed and efficient food packaging. It stands out by integrating a dynamic vision system and intelligent buffer technology, streamlining the picking and loading of diverse food products such as cheese, raw and cooked ham, sausage, and salami into preformed packages. Its advanced gripper technology permits quick changes, accommodating various portion shapes and layouts, reducing downtime, and enhancing throughput. With integration capabilities that harmonize with GEA’s line solutions, the OptiRobot 6000 supports fully automated operations, maintaining continuous production flow. Engineered with a robust construction, it ensures precise positioning and offers compatibility with GEA SmartControl panels for intuitive operation and monitoring. Ideal for food processors and packaging companies, it addresses modern production challenges with efficiency and scalability, optimizing the use of existing floor space while supporting sustainability goals.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency by automating high-speed picking and loading tasks.
- Minimizes downtime with a quick-change gripper mechanism.
- Reduces labor costs through seamless integration with automated processes.
- Optimizes floor space with a compact, robust design.
- Ensures quality control with a vision system that only allows proper portions for packaging.
- Applications
- Sausage,Cheese,Food packaging,Cooked ham,Salami,Raw ham
- End products
- Sliced salami,Pre-packaged cooked ham,Sliced cheese,Sliced sausage,Vacuum-sealed food packages,Pre-packaged raw ham
- Steps before
- Slicing,Shaping,Portioning
- Steps after
- Packaging,Sealing,Distribution
- Input ingredients
- cheese,raw ham,cooked ham,calibrated sausage,salami
- Output ingredients
- packaged portions,shingled portions,stacked portions,overlapped portions
- Automation
- Fully automated
- Speed
- High-speed loading
- Capacity
- Various product shapes and sizes
- Changeover time
- Short changeover times
- Gripper Technology
- 3D printed,pneumatic
- Vision System
- Optional state-of-the-art vision system
- Integration
- Seamless with GEA SmartControl HMI
- Positioning Accuracy
- Accurate
- Reloading Time
- Faster with GEA OptiBuffer
- Construction
- Robust and solid
- Footprint
- Attractive,minimal
- Detection Type
- Vision
- Performance
- Higher line effectiveness
- Control Type
- SmartControl HMI
- Product Layout
- Stacked,shingled,overlapped
- Flexibility
- High flexibility
- Automation level
- High/PLC/SCADA
- Changeover time
- Shortest possible due to quick gripper exchange
- CIP/SIP
- Not specified
- Cleaning method
- Not specified
- Integrated steps
- Vision system detection,Gripper exchange,Buffering
- Energy efficiency
- Not specified
- Loading patterns
- Automatic (stacked,shingled,overlapped)
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Compact footprint
- Attractive footprint
- Control panel type
- SmartControl HMI
- Gripper type
- Pneumatic grippers
- Gripper exchange mechanism
- One-click exchange
- Control panel type
- GEA SmartControl HMI
- Integration possibilities
- GEA line solutions
- Vision system
- Optional GEA RoboVision
- Gripper exchange mechanism
- One-click exchange
- Footprint
- Compact
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.