Flexpickers stacking pancakes

RG Luma have recently installed 2 lines of four ABB IRB360 flexpickers each of which take randomly distributed pancakes from a conveyor and stack them to a predefined (selectable) stack pattern on a central conveyor and transports the stacks to a flow wrapper for outer wrapping. Each system is working at around 450 ppm. Future lines are being designed and built to cope with a multitude of different products. Call +44 1905 753700 for further details.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Robots
• Flexpickers
• Pancake
• stacking
• crumpet
• RG
• Luma
• Automation
• Vision
• Inspection
• ABB
• IRB
• 360
• 340

[nave111]

how does it pick them up? stabbing them? grasping them? or some kind of vacum?

[RGLumaAutomation]

@nave111

A Vortex minimum contact gripper - ie blown air over an aerofoil shape to create 'lift' at the centre of the vortex - rather than vacuum which would damage the pancakes.

[eldisturbio]

That is a brilliant and mesmerising robot. I'm going to look at wrapped stacks of pancakes on supermarket shelves in a different light now. :-)

[RGLumaAutomation]

@eldisturbio

Thank you :-)

[Expiredjelly]

That machine is really neat, how does it "know" where a pancake is to pick it up? As far as I can tell, it looks like the pancakes are lined up randomly.

[RGLumaAutomation]

There is a camera in front of each robot's working area - As the pancakes pass through they are photographed and their position on the conveyor is stored and tracked - The software then gives the robot the coordinates for each pancake position and the robot moves there and picks.

[halffade]

I'm jealous of the smart person who invented this smart machine :P

[mcclanahoochie]

Song = "In Between" - Leo Der Stapanians. You are welcome.

[maxparadoxx]

Cool video

[Dreadfun1k]

I had no idea there was pre-packaged pancakes

[MrKayakFisho]

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM

[Dri143]

FOOOODASSSSEEE

[younoooob]

i wonder how the machines know how many are stacked

[Serotis]

just amazing, really.

[muzzicplayer]

im hungry