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Fruit and vegetable processor Heemskerk fresh & easy sees that the demand for health and convenience continues to increase. The family business, which has been active since 1960, responds smartly to this by continuously innovating with new products and concepts. Among other things by producing meal salads, fruit salads and meal and soup packages. Heemskerk called in Lan Handling Technologies to pack these trays in boxes and crates. Peter van Kampen, manager Projects & Innovations at Heemskerk fresh & easy: “Lan has a lot of experience with companies that package similar products as Heemskerk. For this they offered a standard robot cell, with a number of Heemskerk specific adjustments on the input side of trays, boxes and crates. The advantage of a standard is that it has already proven itself.”
Due to the increased demand in recent years, the pressure on a sufficient workforce is also increasing. Peter van Kampen: “Ultimately, you look for an optimal balance between good employees in key positions and robotisation where possible to save personnel. It is important that you look at long-term growth, continuity and cost savings. With Lan case packers, we have robots that can be used 24/7, we can process more volume on a smaller footprint and we have more predictable costs per year.”
| Location | Netherlands, Rijnsburg |
| Product | Salad bowls |
| USP | Interchangeable gripper |
| Diversity | 3 products, 5 product patterns, one line |
A flexible industrial robot is the center of our case packer, the robot arm picks up the trays with a vacuum gripper and then accurately places them in cardboard boxes or crates. Lan also supplied the system for stacking and destacking crates and boxes, this is done before the packaging enters the robot cell.
Some challenges we faced when designing this line:
“We have been orientating ourselves in the market for a longer period of time looking for a party that could offer a good solution for the case packing of our type of bowls. Glad we found Lan Handling. Lan Handling has proven to be a professional party with broad knowledge and expertise in End-of-Line automation. The project team was professional and knowledgeable and able to provide solutions to specific challenges within this project. The installation and commissioning was well prepared and as a result the downtime during installation of this production line was limited. The project was delivered with all necessary documentation and data, here various parties can take an example, the latter is certainly sometimes a shortcoming in the delivery of a project.”
“Lan engineers will start working at Heemskerk in June 2020, for the the installation of a second automated production line. This again saves many manual actions. In the meantime, three additonal case packers have been ordered. These will be installed at the end of 2020.”
“We have been orientating ourselves in the market for a longer period of time looking for a party that could offer a good solution for the case packing of our type of bowls. Glad we found Lan Handling. Lan Handling has proven to be a professional party with broad knowledge and expertise in End-of-Line automation. The project team was professional and knowledgeable and able to provide solutions to specific challenges within this project. The installation and commissioning was well prepared and as a result the downtime during installation of this production line was limited. The project was delivered with all necessary documentation and data, here various parties can take an example, the latter is certainly sometimes a shortcoming in the delivery of a project.”
“Lan engineers will start working at Heemskerk in June 2020, for the the installation of a second automated production line. This again saves many manual actions. In the meantime, three additonal case packers have been ordered. These will be installed at the end of 2020.”
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Sales Manager End-of-Line automation