High-Mix Case Forming, Robotic Packing and Sealing Line for Sanitary Napkins

The cell is designed around format flexibility, because on a thirty-SKU application flexibility is the actual product. **Case forming module.** The RSC case is formed in line at 25 cases per minute, with squareness and bottom-seam glue monitored as a quality signal rather than assumed. **Robotic vision packing cell.** A vision system locates the incoming pack and the robot places it according to the active recipe. Placement height, orientation and count per case are recipe parameters, so pack size differences do not require mechanical adjustment. **Case sealing station.** Sealing runs in line behind the loader. Because the case arrives squarely formed, the sealer holds a consistent seam across all formats without per-format adjustment. **Recipe library for the whole SKU range.** More than thirty formats are stored as recipes covering placement, count and sealing parameters. Changeover is a recipe selection on the HMI plus a check of the format data, which is what makes a 5-minute changeover realistic in production rather than only in a demonstration. **Line control and data.** The cell reports run status and OEE to the plant control layer, so format changes and short stops are visible in the production data instead of only on the line.