Robotic Egg Packaging Solution – Robotic Automation [Video]

Customer Requirements

To improve production speed and efficiency in a busy packaging facility.

The previous manual egg carton packaging operation consisted of many employees standing at the end of egg carton lanes, packing a maximum of 70,000 eggs per hour.Palletising and forklift operation was also a manual task carrying a risk of staff injury, damaged product and incorrect orders.These repetitive tasks no longer requires large amounts of manual labour.Robots embedded with AGVs have been utilised to complete the entire process increasing production efficiency and reliability whilst simultaneously removing risk of human error and injury.

Instant BenefitsOutput has increased from 70,000 eggs per hour to 180,000 eggs per hour – over 250% increase in production as well as cost reductions and reliability improvements.

The System

Shipper cartons are erected and packed by Yaskawa Motomanrobots, before moving through an automatic closing machine. Barcodes are used to distribute the cartons down sorting lanes …