Cover page | IDM Factbox Key data of the CSi project - Sector: Ice-cream - Country: Netherlands - Gantry de-palletising in deep freeze, case cutting, opening and emptying, feeding ingredients into three production lines with robots and removing carton and plastic waste - 3 production lines with capacity of 12 cases per minute Innovations - First fullly automatic filling line for ingredients into ice-cream in the world - Recognition of pallet patterns in deep freezer on the basis of orientation - Complete automatic split of waste material (carton and plastic) Benefits - Impressive productivity gain: 5 people less per shift - More factory floor available: all systems located on first floor (height) - Less internal transport - Waste output minimised - Just-in-time supply to the production line with a maximum 20 minutes between deep freeze and the ice-machine, thus reducing waste - Full data tracking - Safety: automatically opening cases instead of manually (with a knife) - No transfer from wooden pallets to plastic pallets Technical highlights - De-palletising in deep freeze at -30 °C - Full redundancy gripper tools in the deep freeze - Extension to line 4 and 5 possible - Multi-functional gripper: picking and turning case, picking and emptying plastic bag, removing bag and case - Opening taped cases without product pollution - SMS-alert in case of disruptions of the process Your specialist for format flexible cup and bucket filling machines To ensure your products make a big impact! 4-5 2016 | international-dairy.com · 7 Each of the three robots is equipped with an ingenious gripper (photo: CSi) ing the product does not stay outside the deep freeze for more than 20 minutes. This was achieved through 100% data tracking where the location of every ingredient is known in real time. The start-up phase was a joint effort and a 99.5% availability level achieved three months after hand-over. To be able to monitor the system constantly, several cameras were installed. The maintenance department find this is a very useful tool. In combination with the sms-text-alert they automatically receive when something goes wrong, they are able to work very efficiently and effectively. As part of the project CSi Lifecycle Services delivered Hypercare support during the first 8 weeks of operation. The customer is very satisfied with the outcome of the project. The plant also has a new future because unacceptable and costly working methods have been eliminated. Several colleagues from other factories have been into the plant to look at the result and CSi looks forward to delivering more of these types of projects in the future. GRUNWALD GMBH Pettermandstr. 9 88239 Wangen im Allgäu/Germany Phone +49 7522 9705-0 info@grunwald-wangen.de www.grunwald-wangen.de GRUNWALD dosing technology
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