Smart Pick – Fully Automated Bag Emptying and Processing of Complex Recipes
What this video shows
This video shows SmartPick selecting, opening and emptying bags inside a robotic cell according to a recipe. It demonstrates the process sequence and system boundaries. Capacity, residual product, weighing accuracy and dust performance must be verified with representative bags and materials.
What the footage shows
The footage shows a guarded robotic cell with pallet stations, an articulated robot, a bag gripping head, cutting and emptying equipment, ingredient routes and empty bag handling.
Process challenge
Manual bag opening combines lifting, cutting, dust release, ingredient identification and recipe control. Automation can transfer those tasks to a guarded cell, but it also creates requirements for bag recognition, residual product, cleaning, fault recovery and validation.
Demonstrated solution
F.lli Sacchi presents SmartPick as a robotic system that depalletizes, opens and empties bags according to a recipe. The video demonstrates the sequence and cell concept. Actual capacity, residual product, dosing result and dust performance require evidence for the chosen bag and material.
Technical overview
Key features
- •One or more pallet stations
- •Articulated robot with sensor equipped gripping head
- •Bag cutting and emptying station
- •Recipe and raw material traceability functions described by the manufacturer
Benefits
- •Reduced routine manual interaction inside the guarded process sequence
- •Automated ingredient selection and documented recipe execution
Typical applications
- •Multi ingredient recipe preparation
- •Automated bag depalletizing and emptying
- •Powder and granule handling
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About this video
SmartPick is a robotic cell for selecting bags from pallets, opening them and transferring their contents into a recipe controlled process. The video shows the physical sequence and several possible cell arrangements.
Process sequence shown
An articulated robot identifies and grips a bag at a pallet station. It moves the bag to a cutting and emptying station. The process then routes the ingredient toward downstream equipment and manages the empty bag.
F.lli Sacchi states that the SmartPick software manages recipes and raw material traceability. The current product page also describes sensor equipped gripping, multiple pallet stations and dedicated cutting and emptying stations.
What automation changes
The robot removes routine lifting and cutting from the normal operator task. A guarded cell can also separate people from moving equipment. Dust control, however, depends on the opening station, extraction, seals, material and operating condition.
Automation transfers work into identification, controls, cleaning and fault recovery. A damaged bag, unstable pallet, unreadable label, compacted product or incomplete emptying must have a defined response.
Acceptance criteria to define
- Supported bag materials, dimensions and mass.
- Pallet pattern and permitted deformation.
- Required recipe and identity checks.
- Residual product and empty bag handling target.
- Dust extraction and containment evidence.
- Cleaning, allergen changeover and foreign body control.
- Recovery procedure for failed picks and torn bags.
The video demonstrates the concept. A production decision should use representative bags and materials in an acceptance trial with measurable criteria.
From video review to acceptance plan
Turn each important observation into a requirement that can be checked. Define the material, operating state and measurable result. Record who supplies the evidence and whether it comes from a drawing, calculation, certificate, material trial or site acceptance test. Include normal production, startup, shutdown, cleaning and credible fault conditions. This approach preserves the discovery value of the footage while preventing a visual impression from becoming an unsupported specification.
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