es have been built for Mexican companies producing baked beans and ready to eat meals for the American market.Both of the Mexican producers were looking for a fully automatic process to sterilize 200 pouches per minute. The challenge was to combine a newly designed holding system as part of the sterilizer along with the automatic loading/offloading of the pouches from the existing production line. The success of this innovative process was achieved in cooperation with a well reputed company specialized in 5 axes robot handling.
The robots pick up pouches from conveyors and place them accurately into the carrying trays. The trays are then piled up and slid into the sterilizer holders which clamp them and run the pouches through the sterilizer.
After the full sterilization and cool downprocess the pouches are automatically offloaded and conveyed to the packaging area.
This technology allows a high quality and consistent process without labor involvement as well as a tremendous reduction of energy consumption compared with traditional installations.
