Clear Automation Flexible Pencil Feeder

Clear Automation designed and built this system to transfer cosmetic pencils from bulk feed to a cartoner. Pencils are loaded into two bulk hoppers. Step feeders transfer them to 2-lane belt conveyor. A servo mechanism transfers them to a linear indexer. A vision system inspects each pencil to verify that the cap is present and that it is in the desired end-to-end orientation. Backward pencils are re-oriented. Good pencils (caps present) are picked from the end of the indexer, two at a time, and are transferred to a cartoner with a pitch change along the way. The system features a touchscreen HMI with a database of product information. Changeover between products takes just a few minutes.

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Science & Technology

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• Clear
• Automation
• Clear Automation
• cosmetics
• cosmetic manufacturing
• robot
• robots
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• pick and place
• vision guidance
• machine vision
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• robotic sorting and feeding
• robotic automation
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• medical device
• Adept Technology
• labeler
• Herma
• Herma Labeler
• FlexLink
• Cognex
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• laser