FRONT OF PACKAGING LINE DRY PART

The front of the line starts with the depalletization of containers to feed the downstream equipment for the filling, closing and palletizing processes. This is the first crucial point, from customer raw materials storage to the production phase. The installation performed in the depalletization area goes beyond the meaning of depalletizer, because automatic depalletization of folded carton to be feed in case erector, or dumping unit for caps and bottles to unscramblers, have been successfully installed. Clevertech vertically integrates this equipment and delivers data exchange to customer management system.

Sweep-off depalletizers
Magnetic layer picking depalletizers
Vacuum layer picking depalletizers
Reshippers depalletizers
Robotic caps/bottles dumping

LAYERS PER MINUTE

Clevertech has an extensive portfolio and can offer low- and high-level depalletizing systems equipped with sweep-off technology, robotic layer picking systems, magnetic-type handling and vacuum equipment.

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The solutions can adapt to available factory real-estate, thanks to their modular design and range of set-up possibilities.
All Clevertech depalletizers are designed to allow the proper storage and return of consumables back to the raw material suppliers,such as tie sheets, top frames, and empty pallet strategically placed cameras record operations for storage in the cloud. This footage of shift operations can then be analysed to identify alarm triggers, for root-cause identification.
A 10-layers-per-minute production speed is the maximum achievable with a high-level configuration.
Automation delivers operator-free operation, resulting in faster return in investment (ROI).

100%

FULLY AUTOMATED SOLUTIONS

Clevertech depalletizing systems are completely independent and are equipped with fast change-over for different products.

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A series of drives, fully managed by the HMI, can deliver different product-handling procedures with just a simple selection from the menu.
The raw material magazines - which store tie sheets, slip sheets, top frames and empty pallets - can be changed quickly, with minimal impact on production process.
According to customer requirements, Clevertech depalletizers can be fully connected to a customer’s ERP solution, to ensure optimum throughput and product volumes.
All these features save time, and effort, without wasting products, even across different production batches. These features, combined with Clevertech’s expertise, make the depalletizer 100% autonomous.

DIFFERENT PRIMARY PACKAGING PRODUCTS

Clevertech’s depalletizing systems can handle any type of product, such as rigid or flexible, glass or plastic, aluminum or steel, carton, or composite cardboard.

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The flexibility delivered by automation enables full customization of the solutions, which can adapt precisely to specific product-handling requirements. The sweep off depalletizer head is suitable for handling rigid-side-wall containers, such as bottles or cases.
With vacuum layer picking, Clevertech can handle light rigid containers with unstable forms, such as shaped plastic jars, personal care primary packs or flexible packages. Magnetic heads for depalletization are ideal for steel containers.
Eight different types of primary-packaging product materials can be managed by Clevertech depalletizers.

DEPALLETIZING SYSTEMS

Regarding the front-end of packaging lines, the company has significant experience in the supply of automatic robotic dumping units for caps and bottles, with direct interface with AGVs. Clevertech supplies not only depalletizing systems, but also integrated solutions for the robotic feeding of folded cases to the carton forming machinery magazine.

Clevertech’s front-of-packaging-line solutions can have two set ups, floor level installation or high-level with operating platforms.

Both can be customized to suit a clients’ specific needs.

Clevertech systems can handle different types of raw materials arriving at the beginning of packaging line, using three different types of product handling:

Pneumatic
Magnetic
Mechanical

These are at least 8 of the different types of container box-layout that:

Plastic
Glass
Steel
Composite cans
Empty plastic jars
Aluminium
Tinplate
Cardboard

An important aspect of the front-of-lines system is to have the right quantity of product being fed at the required speed.

At the same time, the automation has to maintain the integrity and quality of container box-layouts without damaging them.

These two requirements seem to be an obvious target, but the desynchronization with downstream machines and reduced container box-layout quality are two of the most common causes of line stoppages.

Thanks to vertical integration of data exchange with a customer’s ERP solution, and with the support obtained by PackML, Clevertech offers seamless connectivity to other equipment, maximum synchronization and precise product-quantity control.

Clevertech’s Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) approach to design facilitates easier maintenance operations, minimizing machine stoppages, boosting productivity and reducing cost of ownership.