The highlights of Pester Pac Automation Inc. include two new robotic devices. As an expert in the post-packaging of pharmaceuticals, Pester Corporation is creating a series of new solutions for cosmetics and food packaging. The existing robotic equipment is also suitable for this. On the PEWO-pack 450 Compact film winding wrapper, the company installed one of the two robots, the Pac robot 3, a pick-and-place dual-axis robot with a capacity of 300 bottles per minute and a payload capacity of 30. In kilograms, six cosmetic bottles can be picked up and rotated and sent to the wrapping machine. Both robots are controlled by an ELAU PacDrive C400 automation controller. In the Pac robot 3 case, the wrapper was also run by the same controller. There is no "black box" robot control hardware with patented software. Instead, control tasks are performed by the IEC 61131-3 compatible function blocks in the ELAU robot software library.
Another Pac robot 4 robot has 3 traditional servo shafts and a linear engine. As a typical packaging equipment for pharmaceutical products and fresh foods, it is placed downstream of a thermoforming machine. The robot has a working pulse speed of 100 cpm and a payload of 800 grams.
Source: Packaging Machinery
Pester Corporation: New Packaging Robot