Visual inspection with subsequent palletising
In many cases, packaging tasks are still carried out manually, since the human eye and the human feel easy are inevitable in making products and packaging operations as quality control. However, in contrast with the innovative packaging line for brush heads of FLG.
“The good into the pot, the bad into the crop”: According to this principle, the new packaging plant of FLG is working. For the final inspection of brush heads for electric toothbrushes a fully automatic packaging line with upstream optical quality control has been implemented. The brush heads to be tested are taken to special brush strips according to Beborstungsmaschinen and then clocked 2 lanes by a vision cell. In the Vision-cell 5 camera systems with a special lighting are integrated per line, making the recordings of the brush heads from different angles. A special software solution evaluates these recordings made within a very short time.
Strict control determines faulty Beborstungen regarding color, position or structure of the individual filaments. Despite the intense and elaborate control the plant achieves an output of approximately 120 brushes per minute. Brushes that have passed this test are then transported to the downstream palletising system DUO-Line. The Standardpalettiersystem isolated plastic trays of two separate stacks parallel two Doppelgurtbänder. The trays are then clocked through by two independently operating handling units with multiple gripping system and equipped with the audited good parts. At the end, the operator can remove the trays with the controlled brush heads batch from the system and passed to the other processes.