Snack and chips bagging line with robotic case packing
Multihead weighing, pillow-bag forming with nitrogen flush, metal and weight checking, robotic case packing and palletizing for 30–200 g snack bags.
Output
20–40 bags/min per bagger
Packages
Pillow bags 30–200 g in corrugated cases
Products
Corn puffs, potato chips, crackers, popcorn, nuts
Stations
6 machines
The challenge
What this line has to solve
Light, fragile snacks break if dropped from height, irregular pieces make weight hard to hit without giving product away, and packing pillow bags into cases by hand is the biggest labour cost on the line.
Our solution
How the line is built
A Z-bucket elevator feeds a 10 or 14-head combination weigher sitting on a platform above the 450Z bagger, keeping the drop short. Bags pass a combined metal detector and checkweigher. A servo carton erector supplies cases to a delta-robot case packer that places bags in a standing pattern, then cases are taped and palletized by a lifting-column robot.
