Free Up the Production Floor with the Powerful Peregrine®

Note: This article describes an earlier Peregrine configuration. See the current Peregrine and Peregrine IS pages for today’s options.

The vision-guided robotic Peregrine^® cartoning system maintains high speeds and offers the ultimate flexibility—all in a small, cleanable, easy-to-use package. Peregrine places carton forming and closing inline so there’s no wasted real estate.

In fact, in comparable configurations the Peregrine’s footprint is roughly 50% smaller than that of a conventional cartoner, depending on the configuration and the system it’s compared against. In addition, the cartoning system eliminates problematic handoffs from conveyor to conveyor. 

Compared to other cartoning methods, the Peregrine stands apart. The traditional top-load cartoning system requires an infeed conveyor and product collator. After the cartons are formed, they are then transported to the robotic loading cell. That section of conveyor from the carton forming to the loading section relies on friction to move. This typically results in placing the carton former and carton loader far away from each other, which usually leads to the cartons slipping and sliding. This, as you may have guessed, results in bottlenecks and downtime. Unless the carton and forming machines are placed close together, full carton control is not possible. 

Enter the Peregrine. This versatile cartoner combines cleanable, washdown-capable construction matched to the application with a footprint dramatically smaller than traditional top- and end-load cartoners. On the Peregrine IS configuration, the high-speed JLS TRAK^® and positive carton transport (PCT^®) system eliminate problematic handoffs and the need for any other conveyors to move cartons away from the former, to accumulate, or manage the loading process. Cartons are kept in-line, without turns—from forming to loading, all the way to closing.

Instead of using conveyors and spacing carton formers and loaders far away from each other, a servo carton removal (SCR) system removes the carton from the forming machine and places it into our track system. The two-axis, servo-controlled SCR system positively grips the carton and moves it vertically down into position on the track. Once cartons are placed into the TRAK, the PCT accurately and efficiently moves the cartons through the loading area and the Peregrine robots build the product collation directly into the carton, eliminating all transfers from the infeed into the carton—and all while saving valuable real estate on the production floor.

Contact JLS^® today to see how the Peregrine can streamline your packaging line or visit www.jlsautomation.com/peregrine to learn more.