ICM Electronics engineered, produced and installed complete line for palletising of PET bottles. ICM produced and integrated conveyors for PET bottle packs, pallet magazine, carton sheet magazine, robotic palletiser, pallet conveyor and safety system. Before operation forklift driver places empty pallets into magazine and carton sheets into carton magazine. Operators needs to pick on HMI product thet will be palletised. Pallet magazine extracts pallets one by one and sends them to the robot. Robot picks cartons from carton magazine and places it onto a pallet. Then, robot picks 2 to 3 packs (depending on product type) and places them onto the pallet. After each layer, robot places a new carton sheet onto packs. Once pallet is finished, it moves to the automatic pallet wrapper. After wrapping, pallet moves to outfeed conveyor where it is picked up by a forklift.

Robotic palletiser packs bottles of different size: 0.5L, 1.5L and 2.0L of natural and carbonated water

Capacity of the line is following:

• 0.5L- 7500 bottles per hour
• 1.5L-5800 bottles per hour
• 2.0L-5000 bottles per hour

For movie of the line, please click here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5QIGB78xbU)

ICM Electronics produced and installed robot line for palletising of veneers/lamellas. Robotic line consists of robot with multifunctional gripper, conveyor for veneer blocks, pallet conveyor and magazine for plastic battens.

Since it is needed to put on pallet veneers and plastic battens, ICM made a palletiser with multifunctional gripper which can pick up veneers of different dimensions as well as different number of battens. Lenght of veneers varies from 800 to 2600mm, while width of veneers varies 110 to 300mm. Number of battens placed onto a pallet depends on lenghts of veneers. The longer the veneer, more battens needs to be placed onto a pallet. Width of pallet is always 1100mm and system calculates automatically how many veneers can fit onto a pallet. It is only needed for operator to enter into the machine width and lenght of veneers and system will calculate and ser up automatically number of veneers that onto a pallet, space between veneers and number of battens needed. It is also needed for operators to fill in magazine with battens before start of machine. Depending on lenght of veneer, magazine releases needed number of battens onto a conveyor which brings battens to the robot automatically. Once battens are infront of the robot, robot would pick them up and place them onto a pallet.

Veneer conveyors together with system for veneer transfer form a 1100mm wide layer of veneer blocks. Veneer conveyors bring layer of veneer blocks to the robot. Robot picks up all veneers from the layer of blocks and puts them onto a pallet. In this way, pallet is ready for drying process.

Capacity of the line depends on width of veneers. The narrower veneer, robot can pick up more veneers per cycle.

For a movie, please click here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ85UJNwxXs)

ICM Electronics engineered, produced and installed complete line for palletising of PET bottles. ICM produced and integrated conveyors for PET bottle packs, pallet magazine, carton sheet magazine, robotic palletiser, pallet conveyor and safety system. Before operation forklift driver places empty pallets into magazine and carton sheets into carton magazine. Operators needs to pick on HMI product thet will be palletised. Pallet magazine extracts pallets one by one and sends them to the robot. Robot picks cartons from carton magazine and places it onto a pallet. Then, robot picks 2 to 3 packs (depending on product type) and places them onto the pallet. After each layer, robot places a new carton sheet onto packs. Once pallet is finished, it moves to the automatic pallet wrapper. After wrapping, pallet moves to outfeed conveyor where it is picked up by a forklift.

Robotic palletiser packs bottles of different size: 0.33L, 0.5L, 1.0L, 1.5L and 2.0L of beer, carbonated water and carbonated soft drinks.

Capacity of the line is following:

• 0.33L-30 packs per minute or 360 bottle per minute
• 0.5L- 30 packs per minute or 360 bottles per minute
• 1.0L- 30 packs per minute or 180 bottles per minute
• 1.5L-30 packs per minute or 180 bottles per minute
• 2.0L-20 packs per minute or 120 bottles per minute

For movie of the line, please click here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyLx9ogbAnM)

ICM Electronics produced and installed a robot line for bag palletising of flour. Robot line consists of a robot arm with mulifunctional gripper, bag conveyor, bundle pack conveyor, pallet conveyor, automatic pallet wrapper and bottom sheet dispenser.

Because space is very limited, ICM made a multifunctional gripper which can bring pallets from a magazine, bring bottom sheet onto an empty pallet and stack different types of products. Robot can stack 3 different types of products: 25kg bags, 30kg bags and bundle packs 10x1kg. Gripper has two independent tools, so that robot can pick up 2 smaller bags and leave them independentlly of each other.

When robot stacks all bags onto a pallet, then pallet moves onto automatic pallet wrapping machine.

After wrapping process, pallet moves to outfeed conveyor where it is being picked up by a forklift.

To see a video clip of palletising 25kg bags, please click here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urLQxDm5zA)

To see a video clip of palletising 30kg bags, please click here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URDOVUyLqiQ)

ICM Electronics produced and installed a line for automatic insertion and evacuation of pallets into/from cooling cells. Cells are designed for cooling sour dairy products. System is made of infeed conveyor where operator places „hot“ products, shuttle car with telescopic forks, outfeed conveyor for cooled products and cooling cells.

Operator places „hot“ pallet onto infeed conveyor and pressing a button which tells system what pallet is being inserted. Once button is pressed, system know for how long to keep pallet in cooling cell. Then, shuttle car picks up pallet from infeed conveyor and takes it into first free cooling cell. There are total od 18 cells (nine on each side). Once pallet is inserted into a cell, a fan starts operating. Fan creates intensive circulation of air between products. Fan is also blowing and airbag inside the cell which seals pallets and directs all the air towards products. This is the most effective way of cooling products which reduces cooling time. Cooling time differes from product to product. Once product is cooled, shuttle car picks pallet up and takes it onto the outfeed conveyor. Forklift picks up pallet from outfeed conveyor and takes it to a warehouse.

For movie of the line, please click here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGBDEfxKVnw)

ICM produced and installed a robot line for palletizing of rubber bales into wooden and metal crates. Line consists of following units: roller conveyor for empty crates, weighing conveyor for crates, conveyor for full crates, palletizing robot, printer, conveyor for bales, safety fences and control cabinet with software. Complete line was produced and tested at ICM facilities before delivery. Line was engineered to satisfy customer demands and to be able to pack bales into wooden and metal crates. Wooden and metal crates are different in size and they can fit different number of bales. Capacity of the line is 15 bales per minute.

Operator needs to put empty crates on roller conveyor for empty bales with a fork lift. Empty crate travels to the conveyor which is on weighing cells. This conveyor measures mass of empty and full crates. Then crates need to be positioned in front of the robot. Robot takes bale after bale and places them into the positioned crate. Once palletizing process is finished, printer labels the crate (mass of full crate, mass of empty crate, date, time, LOT number, etc.) After labeling, pallet travels to the outfeed conveyor where fork lift takes it off the line.