The Automatic TrayPackr is a game-changer in automated packing. It blends efficiency, consistency, and delicate handling into one advanced system. The TrayPackr is designed to significantly cut down on labor and ensures uniform packing. It processes up to 320 apples per minute per unit.
Its standout features include fruit orientation, ease of maintenance and seamless integration with existing packing setups and full box transport.
Due to increased labour shortages we saw a new challenge for packing apples. The ATP is engineered for high packing rates, durability, easy operation with fewer people involved. ATP has a high efficiency and uses a rotation arm with few moveable parts, it is robust, moves very fast and smoothly without compromising the fruit handling.
The Automatic TrayPackr differs from the precision-oriented SmartPackr and is designed for large volumes. It is celebrated for its speed, space efficiency and direct sorting machine integration, proven by successful introduction in the US, Canada and Australia (now 16 double units). This showcases its market readiness and performance superiority.
How it works:
Elevating the fruits when installed on an existing grading machine
Singulation, buffering and separation of fruits
Camera scanning for fruit orientation (also fruits with labels)
Pick and place by multi head robot arms
Discharge of fruits through tray belt
Automatic placement of trays in box (optional)
Automatic full box transport via conveyor belt (optional)
Dimensions and floor space:
L 4,820 x W 2,100 (3.500 mm with open doors) x H 2,850
L 15’-10” x W 6’-11” (11’-6”with open doors) x H 9’-4”
Our SmartPackr apple packing robot is fast and optimally designed for consistent packaging of high-quality fruit. It fills trays and open top boxes at a rate of up to two fruits per second.
And to ensure the quality of the packed fruit by a final quality scan, the robot is fitted with GREEFA’s measuring system for external quality detection (iQS) .
Machine operation and touch screen
The fruits enter the robot’s domain on an infeed belt and rotate on the diabolo unit to the packing mechanism. Blushes and orientation are recognized to help place them in the right position for pick-up with the robot arm. Which then checks if this fits the relevant tray before actually placing it there with blush side up and in the selected stem-calyx orientation.
It’s fast and very fruit-friendly.
As soon as it’s completely filled, the tray is carefully transported on an evacuation belt for further handling – usually to a box-filling station.
Key specifications SmartPackr
General
Capacity up to two fruits per second
Very fruit-friendly
60 – 100 mm size fruit
Consistent packaging
Automatic check for fruit and tray size
Applicable directly to a sorter or in a packing line
Orientation
Selectable stem-calyx orientation
Presentation apple with blush side up
Trays
Packing in separate trays or in open top boxes
Recognizes different trays and tray types
Maximum fust / tray size 400 mm / 600 mm
Touch screen
Easy-to-use machine operation by touch screen
Touch screen moveable
Configuration
Modular design
Upgradeable, depending on required capacity and available space