OEM APPLICATION NOTE
Linear Servo Track System Allows Production-on-Demand for Liquid Filling With the help of a track system from B&R, this Polish OEM is building machines that make it practical for liquid product CPGs, like pharma or cosmetics companies, to plan for short and specialized product runs. MATT REYNOLDS, EDITOR, PACKAGING WORLD For CPGs hoping to launch new liquid products into industries like pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and household chemicals and cleaners, highly customized or short runs have always been severely limited by cost and implementation times. Traditional customization methods made it unprofitable to release small batches. Consider this scenario: The production department at a large cosmetics company at a manufacturing plant in the suburbs of a European capital takes a call. Someone from the marketing department is asking to order a small batch of shampoo for a promotional campaign. How big is the order? It’s quite small at only 5,000 units. That’s a problem in and of itself, but this marketing person is requesting a couple of changes, too, asking that the shampoo color be different, and filled into some custom bottles instead of the usual ones. Oh, and they’d also like to change the caps and the labels. And the deadline happens to be early next week. These expectations wouldn’t sound acceptable to most CPGs. Unless the product is already waiting on the shelf at the warehouse, it’s simply unprofitable to apply so many changes to a well-oiled machine of a production line. At least, that used to be the case. Today, Polish packaging machine builder Unilogo Robotics is trying to make these scenarios not only doable for liquid product CPGs, but downright practical. Its Cleanline system, a new, fully automated packaging line based on B&R’s ACOPOStrak transport system, makes short runs with high variability possible—in fact they can be deployed extremely rapidly and provide unprecedented optimization performance with just a few clicks.
↑ Unilogo Robotics’ Cleanline packaging system targets liquid product CPGs in industries like cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and household cleaners and chemicals. Cleanline as a whole complies entirely with Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things principles in that the machine is coupled with a smart network. The entire process is very simple to control and monitor, and it can all be done in real time, according to the company.
Pioneer and visionary in the packaging technology market Unilogo Robotics is a medium-sized Polish OEM that designs and manufactures solutions for the cosmetics, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, specializing in liquid product customization. According to its supplier B&R, the company’s machines and production lines are the embodiment of innovation in its complete form, and of true engineering panache. “Initially, we provided services to large corporations moving their May/June 2022 • Healthcare Packaging | 13
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