SACCHI

SmartPick - Robotic bag (sack) opening and recipe preparation of powders

Bag openers - Bag dumping

SmartPick, designed by Sacchi, a company leading the market of bulk handling since the 1926, was designed to automatically pick from a pallet, open and empty bags and boxes without any limitation in weights. The system was created imitating the operators: the hoppers in front, the pallets in the rear and in between an articulated robot that picks the required bags from the pallet and cuts them in the designated hopper shaking them as an operator wouldn’t do. It is based on the most advanced and reliable robot unit available on the market, equipped with a patented gripping head and managed by an adaptive sw designed by Sacchi after years of research and tests. SmartPick is a modular design and can be configured as per your needs: from a basic system composed by a robot, a single pallet and a single hopper up to a more advanced system composed by a number of pallet and hoppers managed by one or more robots. The system is modular and pallets and hoppers can always be added at a later stage.

Smart Pick is based on an innovative concept covered by many patents and it is developed with the leading robot brand. SmartPick solves the problems connected to the de-palletizing, opening and emptying of bags containing bulk products in a revolutionary and unique way.

SmartPack comes from the decade-long experience of Sacchi, company active since 1926 in the development of exclusive high tech solutions in the field of the material handling of powders and granules bulks.
SmartPack is a revolution in the bag filling, sewing/welding and palletizing of industrial bags. Engineered with the most advanced robotic system in the world warranties efficiency and productivity.

• The very compact layout makes it possible to install it in buildings with strong room constraints or on mobile re-locatable platforms.
• Thanks to the versatility of the articulated robot the layout can be re-configured, re-positioning the destination pallets and the empty bags picking trays.
• The flexibility of a six axis robot makes it possible to change the bag size/material in zero time and to manage multiple bagging heads with the same robot, giving the possibility also to bag different products with the same machine.
• Thanks to the advanced graphic interface, the system can be managed by operator without any experience with automatic machines. SmartPack, once a product is configured in terms of type of packaging, weight of the bag and palletizing pattern, saves the data set in a recipe that can be recalled in a second time even with a bar-code reader.
• The metering device can be with a gross weight scale, or a net weight scale, with a screw, gravity, impeller, vibrating channel feeder. In any case is designed paying attention to the cleanability.

SmartTipping is a robotic solution for the preparation of micro-batches and takes the management of minor ingredients to end-less flexibility and modularity thanks to the multi-patented robotic technology Smart developed by Sacchi
The SmartTipping robot manages the "n" feeders (tanks equipped with a simple feeding device) installed in the working area in order to prepare the batch described by the recipe
The batch is collected in a small bucket or in a flexible bag, coded by a bar code or RFID tag and sent to the line or poured directly into the mixer/process machine.
The tank feeders can be of different kinds depending on families of product to be processed:

• Screw/Double screw feeders
• Belt feeders
• Gravity feeders
• Others..

The tank feeders can be fixed or re-movable upon needs (takne to the warehouse and back).
The tank feeders can be re-filled automatuically by a SmartPick robot, able to open a bag and pour the powders into the tank feeder.
SmartBatch software manages all the process.
As an option the system can be interfaced to the MES or the SAP both with standard and custom made softwrae protocols.
 

Robotic solution to process picking orders of products in bags. SmartPickER depalletises from one or more entry pallet and repalletises on an exiting pallet.

SmartPicker is a single or multi-robot robotic solution developed for the logistic area of those customers who have to handle picking or repalletization of products in bags.

Pallets are brought in sequence to the depalletizer robot area in manual or automatic way according to picking list, SmartPicker, following picking order, not only depalletizes all required bags, but also repalletizes them on a pallet exiting from the system.

In its most simple version, SmartPickER follows the bags repalletization using palletization schemes different from the original one or  from pallet change (from wood to plastic/stainless steel)

SmartPicker can be equipped with several options:

• Second palletizer robot to double system cycle 
• Roller conveyors to move entry and exiting pallets 
• Empty pallets stackers and unstackers
• Slip sheet placing/removing devices 
• Pallet wrapping units
• Markers and print/apply 
• Interface with MES software

SmartPicker has been designed to be connected with picking software systems and interact with picking area of traditional or automatic storehouse.

SmartPicker is the natural evolution of SmartPick which is on the market for over ten years and it's covered by 5 world patents.

BBDS Big-Bag Emptying

Sacchi is leader for the engineering and production of standard and customised  big-bag emptying machines.
 
BBDS big-bag emptying machine, it’s the best solution to empty big-bag containing both free-flowing products and non-free-flowing powders
Sacchi can offer a wide range of modular solutions, specifically designed paying attention to : 

• Safety : every machine is supplied with technical report made by certified structural engineer
• Ergonomics : ergonomics is the foundation for a safe and efficient handling of big-bag 
• Performance : quickness, powder-proof, effective discharge system and product dosing are the basis for a correct approach to big-bag use

BBDS big-bag emptying systems are modular and can be configured according to some standard features..

 

Product coming out from the lower section of BBDS big-bag emptying machine can be handled in different ways :

• Direct discharge and dosing by gravity : the product is conveyed to the process by fall, using on/off or dosing valve. Dosing can be in continuous by volume/gravity for weight loss or dosed in batch according to a recipe with gravimetric technique "loss in weight" or "gain in weight" depending on process and required accuracy.
• Discharge and dosing by screw conveyor : the product is collected inside an intermediate cone hopper with suitable capacity and from that point it's supplied or dosed to the process. Dosing can be in continuous by volume/gravity for weight loss or dosed in batch according to a recipe with gravimetric technique "loss in weight" or "gain in weight" depending on process and required accuracy.
• Discharge and dosing by ESFP flat bottom extractor : the product is collected inside an intermediate cylindrical hopper equipped with ESFP rotating flat bottom extractor with suitable capacity and from that point it's supplied and dosed to the process. ESFP use allows to extract even the most difficult powders.Dosing can be in continuous by volume/gravity for weight loss or dosed in batch according to a recipe with gravimetric technique "loss in weight" or "gain in weight" depending on process and required accuracy. If necessary it's possible to  install a dosing screw conveyor with variable speed interfaced with dosing digital control unit.
• Discharge by pneumatic conveying in dense or dilute phase : the product is supplied to a rotary valve or to a dense phase pneumatic conveyor and later conveyed to the process machine in a remote space

Big-bag with sleeve can be connected to product discharge section in different ways : 

• Double roll-bar fixed support  "lay-on". Best solution for not dusty and free-flowing products. Big-bag is matched by laying the bottom on a mechanic support. Product holding lace is released by a small door on the lower discharge channel.
• Elastomer diaphragm  : best solution for little dusty and free-flowing products. Big-bag is matched by laying the bottom on the elastomer diaphragm. Product holding lace is released by a small door on the lower discharge channel.
• Mechanic coupler  : advanced solution, the best one for dusty  or harmful products for man. Big-bag sleeve is inserted into a gap that is then locked by cam-lock mechanism. The sleeve is sealed thanks to labyrinth geometry.
• Pneumatic coupler ""inflatable rubber seal" : technological solution, perfect for dusty or harmful products for man. Big-bag sleeve is inserted into the interstitial chamber of a double-pipe channel to which an inflatable device refers during loading and discharge operations.