Flexible assembly work cell for automating production steps

Aminolabs, a Belgian company specialising in sports nutrition, dietary nutrition and health food products, wanted to automate a manual step in their production line. The current process involved filling jars with nutritional powder using automated systems, followed by manually adding spoons and tightening the lids. This manual task was repetitive, tedious and ergonomically challenging for the operators.

Together with Flanders Make, Aminolabs sought an automated solution that would not only solve these problems, but also free up operators for other tasks.

The main challenge was to develop a flexible system that could handle a wide range of sizes, shapes and colours of spoons. Moreover, the production line had to be easily switchable for making different products throughout the day, with simple and intuitive reprogramming. It was also crucial to ensure operator safety while working near the automated system. The target was a minimum assembly rate of 20 pots per minute.