Delicate handling of high quality Cosmetic powder applicator
A flexible and future proof assembly machine made by SACMO
for a major luxury cosmetics brand.
SACMO is a French machine builder that offer to their customers packaging machinery systems and automated lines, from design to assembly, mainly for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries.
Integrated products
Sector
Application
Consumer goods
Pick and Place
Challenge
- Place the applicator (soft pad for applying makeup powder to the skin) of
different shapes, color and sizes in an elegant luxurious packaging. - Ensure brand visibility by always placing the applicator with the name of the brand oriented horizontally and on the top of the packaging.
- Handle delicately those light and deformable applicators without damaging
their quality (no oily marks, no deformation of the product due to gripper or handling). - Traditional bowl and centrifugal feeders were not meeting the brand
requirements for high flexibility. Indeed, the applicator can be of different
shapes, colors, or sizes. It could also be replaced by a completely different
kind of accessory such as a makeup brush.
Solution
- Two Asycubes 530 have been used in conjunction with a Fanuc SR scara
robot to feed the different types of applicators at a rate of 45 PPM (parts per
minutes). The pre-filled makup boxes are presented individually to the feeding station thanks to a modular Festo electromagnetic conveyor. - Thanks to Asyril easy-to-use feeder configuration software, SACMO
configured the perfect vibrations to ensure applicators can re-orientate
without deforming nor damaging them. - The camera looking on the Asycube detects precisely the parts with the right side facing up and gives the angular orientation information to the robot for a fast and delicate pick and place.
Advantages
- Highly compact solution reducing machine footprint in an expensive
cleanroom environment. - The customer can now change production every two days in just a few clicks, no mechanical tooling to be changed.
- A step towards mass customization thanks to industry 4.0.
- Machine is modular and future proof to new applicator designs.