Gerhard Schubert: Efficient automation with the compact Lightline series
26 Sep 2018 | Gerhard Schubert
FachPack 2018 witnessed Gerhard Schubert unveil its new Lightline series. The series consists of three machines: The Carton Packer (seen in the video), The Pickerline and The Flowpacker. The machines are pre-configured and offer compact design in addition to short delivery and set-up times. The new line achieves efficient automation with reduced formats and packaging variants, while also integrating with Schubert’s GRIPS digital platform.
This is Josh report reports for Fact about 2018 in Nuremberg.
I'm here at the Gerbert Schubert stand with Marcel Kisslin, managing director.
Marcel, what can you tell us about the new Lightline machine series?
Why did you develop it?
Schubert, I think, is known for solving quite complex packaging tasks with machines or lines which may be up to 50 m long, built in a modular design.
Concept out of 8 standard modules and our machines are known to be very flexible in terms of adding new formats in terms of scalability, adding another frame for higher output, so flexibility is where our machines excel.
And this is what we want to do also in the future.
However, if somebody has a a quite a simple packaging task, just putting products into a box and closing the box, like the one we show over here.
We couldn't really offer something credible to To packaging tasks like that.
And that's why we decided to come up with preconfigured machines.
So we reduced the degree of flexibility to some extent, but for a simple packaging task, it's probably not necessary to have the full flexibility of a Schubert line.
So we have a preconfigured machine called the Schubert Lightline cotton packer, which you can see behind me.
The other two products of the Schubert Lightline are the Schubert Per line and the Schubert flow packer, and both machines or all three machines have in common that they are more standardized.
They are preconfigured.
You can configure them basically with a push of a button if you tell us what kind of performance, how many products need to be packed, and then we can configure a machine nearly automatically.
What that means is that the design step.
We have is reduced to a minimum.
The machines can be built much faster, and the reduced cost we pass on to our customers.
So these machines can be delivered within 2 to 3 months' delivery time.
They're very compact.
They're very space saving, and they're very affordable, like that cotton pegger.
We have prices indicated here starting at €390,000.
And how does the series sort of help to save on energy?
Due to the more compact design and the use of our components here, obviously the energy consumption will be lower than with a long line by nature.
It's important that those machines are still built out of the Schubert toolbox, as we call it, our standard aggregates, so it fulfills the same quality.
Standards and criteria you know from all the other Schubert lines we sell.
OK, and could you explain some more about the grip system?
How does it integrate into this series and what are its advantages?
We believe in digitization and the name for our digital strategy at Schubert is crips.world.
This is where we develop, for example, a customer portal.
Where we want to make transparent OEE and other performance data of machines, we want to make transparent wear and tear information, all with the objective to be able to offer preventive service.
So the vision we have in the long term is not to have any unplanned downtime and the precondition to achieve that is that we gather.
All relevant information from our machines, so it's not big data.
We call it relevant data or smart data which give us or our customers some valuable information again in terms of performance or in terms of preventative service and the precondition is the GS gate.
GS gate is our machine gateway.
It's very secure.
We have it on display.
Over there it's a co-development between Schubert System Electronics and Genoa.
Ginois is a daughter company of Bundestrogerei.
They are specialists in IT security.
And when can we expect to see the Lightline series on the market and in which regions?
The Lightline series is being sold as we speak.
Actually, the machine on display here goes to our good customer Nida Egger from Lubeck.
They do marzipan confectionery, and we have sold a couple more machines to other parts of the world, including North America.
So the machine is sold as of now and is sold to all regions where there's an interest, and we are very much looking forward to discussing that with our customers.
OK, thank you so much.
Thank you very much.
