KINE brought effectivity in bottle packing

In a brewing enterprise were two sizes of glass bottles unpacked by hand from plastic cages and they were put on cell plates into the dollies. The work was slow, heavy and monotony. KINE dolly packing system was developed to compensate the hand-made work. The system packs 85 dollies and 15 000 bottles per hour. Two truck drivers are needed to use the system at full speed. Compared with the original system, the savings are 300 000 euros in one year. Production could still be even 50% more effective.

Product:
0,7 and 0,5 litres glass bottles

KINE solution:
Robot unpacks the glass bottles from beverage crate and puts them on cell plates into the dollies. Finally the dollies are lifted on a pallet.

Production capacity:
15 000 bottles per hour

Equipment:
· KUKA robots KR350 (2pcs.) and KR180PA
· robot special grippers
· bottle conveyors, pallet conveyors
· robot PLC guiding for the whole system
· control panel

Software:
· KRL robot software
· Robots PLC software
· security logic
· information collector for the production management software

Users:
The system needs two truck drivers at full speed.

Reached profit:
· the working circumstances were improved from moving bottles to supervising robot system
· the working security was improved
· changing the bottle size is more flexible
· reached yearly savings compared to the original methode 300 000 euros
· production can still be raised by 50%

Service and maintenance:
· regular services twice per year
· production stop one day per service