Solutions for Packaged Food

Changing market requirements for products and packages demands flexible production solutions.

ABB provides you with the flexibility to pick, pack and palletize a wide range of products and packaging designs with robotic solutions.

The inherent flexibility of ABB’s solutions mean production lines can be quickly and easily tailored to the changing market demands for your products and packages. Additional products, production lines and functions can be quickly and easily integrated flexible solutions are more compact than traditional lines, they offer substantial space savings too.

Picking

Fast pick and place on the fly.

The ABB FlexPicker allows you to move objects one at a time from one location to another - with speed and accuracy. Regardless of whether the objects are on moving feeders, placed at random or guided, FlexPicker is both faster and more efficient than any conventional system on today’s market. Whether you are handling candy, pretzels or syringes, ABB has a robotic solution for your manufacturing challenge.

Packing

Solutions to improve your competitiveness, productivity and flexibility.

Whether you need to pack products into containers or small sachets into trays or cases, ABB offers standard and customized solutions to increase uptime, improve your productivity and throughput and increase your asset utilization.

By using our robots and automation expertise in food and beverage production, ABB can provide solutions, which will give manufacturers more flexibility, reliablity of their process and higher uptime.

From case packing to labeling to palletizing, ABB robots handle multiple functions automatically. They simplify change-over and speed up your response time to market, while actually improving reliability and increasing capacity.

They’re set up to integrate with workflow management, electronic documentation and electronic record systems to improve your access to data, allowing you to track each order through the packaging process.

ABB offers automated packaging solutions:

Our solutions are easy to operate and suitable for use with many different products.

Palletizing

From independent systems to integrated palletizing lines.

ABB’s robot-based palletizing solutions deliver flexibility, reliability, and capacity far beyond the limitations of traditional, manual, dedicated palletizers.

Whether you need to palletize / depalletize individual products or entire pallet layers, our solutions are designed to increase uptime, improve your productivity and throughput, and increase your asset utilization.

We provide standard and custom grippers and cells.

Bottling

Production systems tailored for the bottling industry.

ABB experience in the bottling industry ranges from single cell installations to complete bottling lines for water, spirits, sparkling and still wine.

ABB bottling solutions can improve your production process through optimization of cell design and floor space, high reliability, short installation time, and competitive cost/performance ratio, easy adaptation to different bottles sizes and shape and better working conditions.

Robot based bottle handling offers you:

• Standardized and reliable industrial robots
• Simplified mechanical peripherals in the work cell such as magazines for pallets and slip-sheets
• Quicker line adaptation to new products or new packaging
• Improved possibilities for multi-task, multi-product and multi-line bottle handling