Tote box filler for unattended production

Visitors will be able to discuss options to suit their own applications, as well as finding out more about the new UPM tote box filler for unattended production. This interfaces to the production machine and counting machine cycles to achieve a target count. When achieved, the full tote is indexed and an empty tote transferred into position.

Product may be conveyed to the tote box via a robot or belt conveyor and the total number of tote boxes can be varied to different models of filler which can be based on a vertical operation or rotary or linear, plus a check weigh station may be incorporated ensuring the tote target count relates to the required weight.

Typically many applications are based on 'lights out unattended production', allowing circa 8h capacity to be collected in totes for the next stages of production to take place, as experienced by Rutland Plastics which installed a turnkey solution for automatic product divert achieved by UPM interfacing to the production machine SPC. Any changes in process parameters result in product being diverted for QC inspection plus ferrous / non-ferrous metal detection; product cooling; parts separation/diverging and box filling with eight full, eight empty and one filling.