Pick‑and‑Place Capping Machine

                                                                 
                                                     Pick-and-Place Capping Machine

Product Overview: 

     This inline pick-and-place capping machine integrates cap picking, bottle gripping, and capping into one high-automation system. Four VFD motors independently drive cap feeder, bottle clamp, conveyor, and capping head. Tool-free adjustments enable rapid changeover between different bottle and cap sizes. Ideal for food (soy sauce, beverages), pharma (oral liquids), personal care (detergents, shampoos), agrochemical, and cosmetic applications. Optional cap placement module available for fully automatic cap supply.

Key Features：

● High-Speed Inline Layout：Compact inline layout achieves 300–600 bottles/hour, meeting medium-to-high throughput requirements.

● Quad-Motor Independent Control：Four independent VFD motors for cap feeding, bottle clamping, conveying, and capping—ensuring precise, synchronized motion and flexible adjustments.

● Tool-Free Quick Changeover：Adapts to various bottle and cap sizes without spare parts. Changeover in minutes using knobs—tool-free.

● Accurate Cap Pick-and-Place：Vacuum or mechanical cap grippers, in conjunction with a turret and guide rails, guarantee accurate cap placement and seal integrity.

● PLC & Touchscreen HMI：PLC control with a 7″color touchscreen HMI. Recipe storage enables one-touch format recall and real-time monitoring with alarms.

● Industrial-Grade Materials & Safety Guards：Frame and contact parts in 304/316 SS; transparent PC safety guards comply with CE safety requirements.

● High-Torque Capping：Capping heads programmable for 5–20 Nm torque, handling threaded, plastic screw, and foil-seal caps.

●Auto Fault Detection：Detects missing caps, slippage, or misalignment, automatically stops and alarms to minimize rejects and ensure continuity.

Applications：

Food & Beverage：Juices, bottled water, soft drinks, beer, sauces, and oils—secure cap tightening.

Pharmaceuticals & Nutraceuticals：Oral solutions, disinfectants, vitamin drinks, and health supplements—consistent seal application.

Personal Care & Cosmetics：Shampoos, conditioners, body washes, lotions, and serums—precise capping.

Chemicals & Industrial：Lubricants, antifreeze, cleaners, and small chemical containers—reliable cap torque.

Agrochemicals & Pesticides：Insecticides, foliar fertilizers, and pesticide solutions—secure closures.

Other Packaging：Electronics coatings, lab reagents, paints, and sealants in small bottles—uniform cap application.

Optional Modules:

Cap Feeder Module：Magnetic or vibratory cap feeder delivers caps to gripper for fully automatic cap supply.

Bottle Accumulator：Automatically accumulates and feeds bottles to ensure 24/7 stable capping line operation.

Labeling Machine：Wrap-around or front/back labeling options synchronized with capping operation.

Inkjet Coder：Inline coding for batch numbers, dates, and QR codes to ensure end-to-end traceability.

Air Blower Drying：Blows dry air onto the cap and neck post-capping to ensure clean bottles and labels.

Technical Specifications：

Working Principle & Operation:

• Cap Feeding：

Caps are oriented in a vibratory or pan feeder and delivered to the pick-up station. Vacuum or gripper picks caps and places them on the turret.

• Bottle Centering & Clamping：

Bottles arrive via conveyor into the clamp. Guide rails and pneumatic clamps center bottles under turret pockets.

• Pick-and-Place：

The pick-and-place head removes a cap from the turret pocket and positions it precisely onto the bottle mouth, guided by rails.

• Torque-Controlled Capping：

The capping head aligns with the cap, applying programmable torque via servo or pneumatic drive to secure the cap—no under- or over-tightening.

• Outfeed & Collection：

Capped bottles exit on the outfeed conveyor to downstream stations (labeling, coding, or packing), enabling an efficient continuous line.

• Real-Time Monitoring & Alarms：

The HMI shows capping speed, torque, output count, and alarms. Missing caps or torque deviations trigger an automatic stop and alarm.

Quality & Certification：

Certifications：CE、UL、ISO 9001

QC Process：

1. Incoming Inspection – Verify material integrity and performance of SS 304 stainless-steel sheets, VFD drives, and pneumatic components through dimensional checks, material certificates, and functional tests.

2. In-Process Inspection – Continuously monitor cap-picking, bottle-clamping, and capping actions using real-time sensors to validate positioning accuracy and drive synchronization throughout assembly.

3. Full-Load Trial Run – Conduct an 8-hour continuous full-speed run at 300–600 bottles/hr to confirm stable operation, zero faults, and consistent throughput under production conditions.

4. Final Factory Inspection – Perform sample runs with multiple bottle and cap types to validate 100% cap application accuracy and zero mis- or missed-capping; issue a formal Quality Inspection Report before shipment.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

Q: How do I change to a different cap size?

A: Release quick-release fixtures, slide the rails to the new cap size position, enter the cap diameter in HMI—no spare parts needed.

Q: How to minimize cap pick failures?

A: In the HMI“Cap Pick Settings,”fine-tune suction force or arm stroke. Optional vibratory or spiral feeder increases pick stability.

Q: How to reach 600 bottles/hr throughput?

A: Optimize PLC cycle times, increase VFD motor speeds, and ensure bottle accumulator and cap feeder modules are upgraded accordingly.

Q: What is the maintenance and cleaning procedure?

A: Daily wipe down HMI, gripper, and guards with food-grade cleaner; weekly inspect rails, sensors, and motors; monthly disassemble and lubricate gearbox.

Q: What are the environmental requirements?

A: Recommended operating temperature 10–40°C, humidity <75%, no corrosive gases or heavy dust presence.

Q: Can it integrate with existing lines?

A: Supports chain, roller, or belt conveyors and standard communication protocols (Modbus/TCP) for SCADA/PLC integration.

After-Sales Service Guarantee：

Global Support Infrastructure!

1-year free warranty; quality-related parts replaced free; wear parts excluded.

Lifetime maintenance: nominal fee after warranty; lifetime spare parts & tech support.

Remote measurement, design & layout support.

Operation manual, remote installation support & video-based training.

3-Year Electronics Warranty：Covers all critical electrical and electronic components, including PLC controllers, touchscreen HMI panels, sensors, relays, and associated control circuitry.

Lifetime spare parts availability with rapid response & technical support.