We recently delivered a smart top-and-bottom labelling solution to a customer, known for its diverse range of poultry products, that streamlines production and eliminates production stops, delays and errors.
The customer processes, produces and distributes a complete range of quality poultry products. The meat is sold in different meat trays that vary in weight and dimensions. The meat trays that the customer wishes to label vary from 15-80 mm in height and vary in weight from 300 grams to about 1 kg, as well as from 150-180 grams.
The customer's challenge lies in producing many small series, which involves a wide range of different packaging variations and product heights.
The labelling process of the products therefore involved a lot of manual changeovers between series with height adjustments for the different meat packages. This often led to long delays, downtime and errors, as all adjustments were done manually.
As a result, the customer requested a top and bottom labelling solution with automatic changeover to different product heights based on the available data.
The solution should thus ensure fewer production stops, reduce errors in the labelling process and provide a recipe-driven labelling set-up as well as increase output in production.
Based on the customer's challenges and requirements, we have designed a smart and flexible solution that can automatically apply recipe changes to the three label dispensers according to the order code received from the product line's weight and price labelling machine as well as scanned batch data.
The solution is highly flexible and covers several different labelling needs, as it can apply one label to the top and bottom of the product or apply two top labels together with the bottom label.
The two top dispensers work in perfect interaction with each other and adjust their position to each other so that the meat trays can pass the inactive dispenser without collision or double labelling. Two actuator spindles ensure a smooth up and down movement of the dispensers for quick changeover to new product heights.
The solution thus contributes to an improved production flow, as one dispenser can be prepared for the next task/batch/series while the other dispenser is running production.
Another advantage of the solution being more autonomous is that operators do not need extensive training to operate/control the line. Errors are reduced and operator hours are released for other tasks.
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