Gerhard Schubert at FachPack 2022: Packing, transporting and printing tech
31 Oct 2022 | Gerhard Schubert
Schubert presented its Flex-packer machine for packing products into a tray and pre-grouping them with the help of robots at FachPack 2022. The company also showcased the carrybots robot for product transportation and its part-box, a distributed manufacturing system consisting of Schubert’s 3D printer and a digital platform, which enables customers to print remotely in different locations. We discussed these solutions with Marcel Kiessling, managing director at Schubert.
This is Natalie S Bertheim reporting from FAPC 2022.
I'm here at the Schubert stand with Marcel Kissling, managing director.
Hi Michelle.
What can you tell us about the pick and place robots you're showcasing here today?
The whole machine is a flex packer packing products into a tray with a hood, so it's about erecting the tray.
It's about filling the tray and closing the tray.
I think what makes the machine very special and extremely flexible.
Is the regrouping of the products you see behind me with those F4 robots and what those F4 robots do instead of a mechanical pre-grouping, a conventional pregrouping, you can group products in patterns which are extremely flexible and we could switch to a different formation or even Different product easily with that technology and this is why we call that machine a flex packer, which makes it extremely flexible and in today's times where producers need to be flexible and react fast to changing requirements, this is a key asset.
So this is why we are showcasing this machine here.
Mattel, you're also showcasing the caribots Herbie here today.
What can you tell us about this?
In order to automate the packaging process completely, besides the primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging, of course, the intra logistics play an important role, and we showcase here the Herbi automatic guided vehicle.
Our partner company Carriots, which is a very flexible, smart solution in order to bring packaging and product, for example, from the storage area to the packaging machine and backwards or to link packaging machines with each other.
How does this application vary to more conventional solutions?
It's a very flexible system.
It can be easily programmed.
It's a line guided technology, so the tracks can be defined easily without a lot of hustle and investment, and it carries up to 50 kg, so it's really a usable nice usable solution.
And what can you tell us about the Party Box 3D printing system you're showing here?
The Part Box is a distributed manufacturing system consisting of Schubert developed and built 3D printer and a digital platform, and it enables.
Our customers to print spare parts or wear and tear parts remotely in different locations in defined quality because we can set the parameters of the 3D print job beforehand we have defined.
And specified material as part of the system and it comes as a subscription offering where you can buy actually print time allowing you to print hundreds of thousands of jobs in any location you want to have it and of course it's a very sustainable solution because you're no longer Distributing and shipping parts around the world, you're printing the parts right at the place where you need it.
Are the industries always in place?
Is this easy to enforce?
Actually, no.
The precondition that you have to have, of course, is that you have parts which are designed for 3D printing.
I think this is the key issue and as long as the company is willing to go the effort to do the design for 3D printing which we support with services and we can even do it ourselves for our customers, this is the important precondition to do.
The rest of it is as easy as printing a document out of a printer.
Thank you very much.
