Task
A packaging system for chocolate bars was installed for a Belgian premium chocolatier. Together with a partner company, the overall solution consisting of a conveying system, a gondola buffer in the function "discharge buffer" as well as the packaging machines was designed and delivered as a turnkey solution.
The task was as follows:
- Takeover of various product sizes from the moulding line on a belt conveyor and harmonisation of the product rows for the subsequent process steps.
- Integration of a metal detection system with associated rejection of individual product rows in the conveyor system directly in front of the buffer. Product flow regulation and intermediate storage of the products by means of a gondola buffer.
- As-needed delivery of the chocolate bars on 2 packaging legs directly out of the gondola buffer with no further discharge stations installed in the system outside the buffer.
- Conveying system for finished products after the primary packaging machines with interface to the downstream shipping cartoner.
