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Plastic Spoons Case study: Injection Moulding

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Technology Category	Robots - Articulated Robots
Applicable Industries	Plastics
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation
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. Read More
About 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. Read More
Customer Name	DeSter Read More
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. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Robots - Articulated Robots

Applicable Industries

Plastics

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

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.

About 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.

Customer Name

DeSter

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.

Impact #1	[Efficiency Improvement - Time To Market] Programming time, production time, and installation time are shortened during the introduction of new products.

Impact #1

[Efficiency Improvement - Time To Market]

Programming time, production time, and installation time are shortened during the introduction of new products.

Benefit #1	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.
Benefit #2	Relative to existing lines, production capacity has also been increased and the cycle-time reduced by 1 second, a 10.5% reduction.
Benefit #3	Packaging volume was reduced to approximately 35%, reducing logistics costs.

Benefit #1

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.

Benefit #2

Relative to existing lines, production capacity has also been increased and the cycle-time reduced by 1 second, a 10.5% reduction.

Benefit #3

Packaging volume was reduced to approximately 35%, reducing logistics costs.

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Plastic Spoons Case study: Injection Moulding

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