Packaging lines: A wide variety to take on any packaging task

One of our most frequently used packaging systems is our pick & place machine or picker line. It packs naked or pre-packed products of various consistencies into packaging materials. Switching between destacking plastic trays and erecting cardboard trays in a single line is no problem at all. With our robots in Scara or Delta designs, individual pick & place tools, the Schubert Vision System and packaging using the counterflow principle, we guarantee perfect product quality and completely filled trays. The performance capacity is determined by the number of robots and is almost infinitely scalable. Our largest pick & place machine to date comprises 48 F4 robots.

Schubert’s flow-wrapping machine, the Flowpacker, is a packaging machine based on a unique concept. This is because pick & place technology also plays a role here: Essentially, the Flowpacker is another variant of the pick & place machine into which the Flowmodul flow-wrapping unit is seamlessly integrated. Unlike conventional product infeeds via belts, the flow-wrapping machine saves an enormous amount of floor space with an infeed via pick & place robots. Naked or pre-packed products are packed into flowpacks with or without trays. Thanks to our sealing technologies, the packaging line is so flexible that it is possible to switch quickly and easily between laminated films and new sustainable flowpack films.

Our case packer functions similarly to the cartoner. These packaging systems also handle the erecting, loading and closing of packaging materials. The difference is that case packer does not create elaborately designed packaging, but rather outer packaging or transport packaging for multipacks. These include wrap-around and RSC cartons as well as trays with and without lids. If cartons with shelf-ready function are used, they are also suitable for use on the sales shelf. The packaging materials are mostly made of corrugated cardboard, but our case packer can also process reusable boxes made of plastic. A pre-grouping system, which is perfectly adapted to the products and packaging, and the F2 robots ensure space-saving loading.

Our filling machine can be used for both liquid and powder products. Bottles and containers of all sizes and made of all materials, from glass to plastic to cardboard, can be used as packaging. Precise filling processes with weigh scales and other quality control features deliver flawless results. Integration into a single line makes sense in order to optimally connect upstream or downstream packaging processes. Here again, our Transmodul transport robot provides support and ensures packaging systems with interface-free solutions. This way, the filled products can be packed fully automatically into secondary packaging and then into outer packaging for transport.

At Schubert, our packaging line or multipacker combines various stages of the packaging process into a single packaging system. This means that primary, secondary and tertiary packaging no longer run in separate machines, but are seamlessly linked. A classic case for the use of our Transmodul: The rail-based transport robot seamlessly connects all system components, i.e. without any interfaces, into a fully automatic packaging process. This usually consists of the recurring erecting, loading and closing of various packaging materials at the successive process stages. Depending on customer requirements, additional functions can also be integrated into the line.