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Fanuc M-1iA Delta Arm robot is used for Bottling Line

Global pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck has commissioned a Fanuc M-1iA Delta Arm robot on a bottling line at its Guadalix facility in Spain facility. The M-1ia places dispenser caps onto bottled allergy medications and is capable of operating at 120 cycles per second.

The robot, which is integrated by Fanuc systems partner Tecnomecánica requires no special clean room compliance as the caps are placed onto filled and sealed bottles - the final operation that takes place before packing.

The M-1ia cell comes with a spiral conveyor that lines up dispenser caps on a rail and a nylon worm drive positions bottles alongside. The robot grips a cap and places it on the bottle, which has previously been sealed by a screw-on cap and the position data is supplied by a simple encoder.

Available as a four or six axes robot, the M-1iA requires only four axes and signals the worm drive to position the next bottle. The caps are firmly pressed down onto the bottles with the help of a cylinder arrangement next to the robot cell and the bottles that are capped are then conveyed to the packaging machine.

The robot line change requirements are restricted to selecting the appropriate program and ten variants of bottle can be run on the system.

 

 

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Merck Commissions Fanuc Robot for Bottling Line