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Plastic Spoons Case study: Injection Moulding

Technology Category

Robots - Articulated Robots

Applicable Industries

Plastics

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

The Customer

DeSter

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About The Customer

DeSter is a world leader when it comes to plastic cups, mugs, plates, and cutlery with more than 1,000 employees around the world.

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The Challenge

In order to meet customer expectations by supplying a wide variety of packaging units, from 36 to 1000 spoons per package, a new production and packaging line needed to be built. DeSter wanted to achieve higher production capacity, lower cycle time and a high degree of operator friendliness with this new production line.

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The Solution

A new plastic spoon line was built with the demands of the market in mind. The heart of the production line is a 400-ton injection molding machine with a 144 composite mold. For unloading the products from the mold, a 6-axis IRB 6600 robot is employed.

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Operational Impact

[Efficiency Improvement - Time To Market]
Programming time, production time, and installation time are shortened during the introduction of new products.

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Quantitative Benefit

The stacking height of the spoon frames has been raised from 50 to 125 so that packages in multiples of 125 can now be supplied.
Relative to existing lines, production capacity has also been increased and the cycle-time reduced by 1 second, a 10.5% reduction.
Packaging volume was reduced to approximately 35%, reducing logistics costs.

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