Video's

As an innovative company we were initially an engineering consultancy looking for challenges in solving problems by applying our P&P feeder. Many (large) companies gave up but we saw chances and opportunities for success with our clients and are therefore happy to accept the challenges.

A number of our successful projects are described briefly below to give you an impression of the solutions we have developed. Our most recent project, a machine which makes a pre-packed instruction leaflet, is described in full.

Faller (Pharma: pre-packed information leaflet)

This machine folds a velvet wallet and places an information leaflet with the back in the opposite direction, this is then checked for the Pharmaceutical barcode and wrapped.

The solution we have constructed consists of:

1. main machine with two P&P placement stations
2. infeed belt for the wrapping machines
3. two integrated wrapping machines
4. delivery belt upon which the products are gathered

The main machine has two Pick & Place placement stations. The velvet wallets are first folded and fed through pressure rollers before being placed on the main transport belt. The leaflet is added at the second station. A barcode scanner checks whether the leaflet is present and if it has the correct barcode (Pharma-code). Both Pick & Place placement stations have an automatic infeed belt.

The composed packages are collected on the infeed belt and then lifted off and slid one by one into the wrapping machine. After wrapping the packages are graded on a transport belt.

Project AGI

Sigma engineering has built a so-called “little book” machine for the AGI company with three placement stations, a creasing unit, double adhesive device and a folding knife with product delivery. Cardboards covers are placed and lead through the creasing unit in this machine. It is therefore no longer necessary to die-cut covers. Glue is subsequently applied and the contents are placed at the second station. Another product can be placed with the second adhesive head and the third station if required. The product is folded lengthways with a folding knife at the end of the transport chain. The product is then pushed between the transport belts and the folded product is collected in a product delivery

MY-Carton project

This video shows the application of a standard Pick & Place on a folder gluer machine. The starting point here was a standard servo Pick & Place machine. A CD is stuck to the inside of a box so that it can be seen from the outside through a window, for example, on campaign packaging for cornflakes. This feeder also has a stream feeder which evenly feeds in the products automatically at this high speed.

E-Card Colordruck project

Pick up, place and fold E-Cards 90º to the direction of feed. Sigma engineering has built a special machine for the Austrian company Colordruck in Salzburg consisting of two placement stations, adhesive device and cross folding knife. Pre-scored cardboard covers are placed in this machine, the adhesive device applies glue and the contents are positioned. Then the product leaves the transport chain and is folded across by the folding knife. Subsequently the product is collected via the transport belt in a delivery.

ODS Project

We have built a complete automation for ODS where CDs are transferred from a spindle feed system to the Pick & Place cartridge without human intervention. When the CD has been placed it is 'stuck' with a static charge to the main product so that the precise take off position is retained in the further processes

Taro Project

Through innovative applications of our vacuum heads on the rotor unusual products such as blister packaging for example can be processed. A specific sucker to pick up one pill in a blister package and position it was developed for the Taro pharmaceutical company. The pill lies in the blister on the side that is sucked up. During suction the packaging will fit into a sealed chamber on the modified suction mouth without being damaged. The product can in this manner be placed with the “pill“side upwards.