Automatic assembly and filling of infusion bags
Scope
Turnkey delivery;
- Feasibility study (technical and commercial).
- Draw up specifications.
- Concept, technical design
- Construction and commissioning.
Purpose
Benefit for client;
- Increase available production capacity
- Improve reproducibility of the production process
- Ensuring the reliability and quality of the production process.
- Minimize switching times by menu choices i.c.m. Robot programs,
Only highly product-specific parts are exchanged. - Low production costs (labor costs and availability) due to far-reaching automation
And increase capacity.
Goal
Increasing existing production capacity and reducing production costs, for assembly and filling of infusion bags. Production takes place in a fully automated production cell where product quality and reliability of the installation are ensured.
Issue
The challenge in this installation is to realize the various part processes in a cleanroom environment with a high degree of process quality and process control, in a fully automated process. The process to be realized consists of stitching and gluing a piece of hose into the socket of an infusion bag, filling this infusion bag with a liquid, sealing the hose and cutting to length.
Infusion bags
- Recognition of the pick-up position of the infusion bags by means of A vision system
- Infusion bag handling using a 6-axle Robot equipped with a vacuum gripper
- Positioning of the infusion bag by means of Deticated tooling
Plastic hose
- Handle of the plastic hose using a 6-axle Robot, equipped with a truncated gripper
- Insert and bond the hose in the infusion bag
- Control of the hose insertion depth by means of A vision system
Fill infusion bag
- Infusion bag handling using a 6-axle Robot equipped with a vacuum gripper
- Fill infusion bag
- Seal and cut length of the filling hose
Drain infusion bag
- Infusion bag handling using a 6-axle Robot equipped with a vacuum gripper
- Put filled infusion bag on a product carrier of an automated transport system.steem
Approach
We have begun a theoretical model in which all input variables, based on the need, are included. Then we made a logistic simulation and a robot simulation (motion profiles and speed), from which the system’s limit values were created.
This installation has therefore deliberately chosen a 6 axle articulated robot of the brand Fanuc, because it is best suited to the requirements in terms of freedom of movement, speed and accuracy.