Neocarton-Your Reliable Robotic Cartoner Manufacturer in China
Robotic cartoner uses all kinds of robots to grasp, precisely identify, and automatically seal cartons. It uses international leading brand multi-axis robots and helps you achieve flexible production through intelligent planning and visual monitoring technology.
Compared to a traditional mechanical production line, it has low manual costs and can switch specifications within 10 minutes, significantly improving OEE and helping you build a digital workshop.  Â
Neocarton robotic cartoners are used in food and beverages, electronic manufacturing, medicine, and personal care sectors. Whether it is high-speed large-scale or small-batch multi-variety production, Neocarton provides you with personalized packaging automation customization solutions.
Our Products
Articulated manipulator makes complex actions and handles multiple products. There is no need for secondary renovations when switching between product lines, achieving flexible production.
The mechanical hand moves linearly in the X, Y, and Z directions and has a high positional accuracy. It is the first choice for standard packing.
It moves flexibly in the horizontal plane and has high rigidity in the vertical direction, suitable for high-speed production of precision or lightweight products.
The flat opening and precise feeding technology ensures zero damage of fine folding cartons, meeting strict brand appearance requirements for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries.
It mainly packs heavy and large-sized corrugated cartons, reducing the high manual handling intensity of large-sized products and increasing logistics efficiency.
Due to its adaptive visual alignment capability, it handles products with large scale or irregular shapes well, allowing you to accept orders flexibly.
Features of Robotic Cartoner
The mechanical arm replaces the suction based on product characteristics to handle dozens of specifications, suitable for market demand for small batches and multiple varieties.
It automatically plans optimal path according to real-time incoming materials, which effectively avoids mechanical interference and frequent human intervention for correction and adjustment.
It identifies geometric shape and material characteristics of the product while inspecting position, direction, and sizes, achieving precise robot operation.
Operators switch production formulas without programming knowledge through the intuitive graphical interfaces, which reduces reliance on highly skilled workers.
Low Maintenance Industrial-grade Robot Joints
Our machines use an industrial-grade robot module with a high protection level. It keeps the reset accuracy at the factory without damage even in 60,000 hours of 24/7 high-intensity work, ensuring your production line is always in efficient operation. During long-term maintenance, it has lower maintenance cost and higher remaining value ratio.
Compact Modular Layout
The robot cartoner integrates the mechanical arm, visual monitoring system, and conveying system in a modular manner, saving over 30% floor area compared to traditional mechanical packing line. It can be easily integrated into workshops with limited space, saving your factory expansion costs and is easy to add equipment later. We customize L-shaped, U-shaped or straight-line layouts for your workshop to integrate them into your production line.
Cases Projects of Robotic Cartoner
Soft-packed food is easy to deform when packing. Our China-based robotic cartoner supplier delivered a high-precision multi-axis system and easily grasps products and controls placing force to prevent the soft bags from deforming, thus ensuring the quality of packaging.
For electronic manufacturing orders of small batch and multiple varieties, the HMI quickly switches specifications. The robotic cartoner automatically adjusts the packing path according to different electronic components to adapt to the rapidly changing electronic products.
- Specifications
| Packing Speed  | 20 – 60 cartons/minute |
| OEE | ≥ 98% |
| Robot Types | Four-axis / six-axis industrial robot |
| Robotic arm repeatability | ±0.01mm |
| Robot placement accuracy | ±0.15mm |
| Application Range of Cartons | L:200-500 W:150-400 H:100-400mm |
| Applicable Product Types | Bagged, bottled, boxed, irregular-shaped parts |
| Control System | PLC + HMIÂ |
| Driving Method | Servo motor |
| Vibration mode | Vibration motor |
There is no need for a professional programming background. As a professional robotic cartoner manufacturer and supplier in China, the operation interface of our robotic carton uses an intuitive graphical user interface. Common operators can master it after half a day of training. Routine operations can be carried out through buttons.
The daily maintenance is very simple. The vulnerable components of the robotic cartoner are equipped with a self-diagnosis system, which automatically locates fault points, and operators will handle them quickly, reducing maintenance time. Due to the modular layout, the vulnerable parts are easy to replace, and common maintenance personnel can easily maintain it.
Absolutely can. The system of our robotic cartoners supports mainstream industrial communication protocols. You can collect key data such as production volume, pass rate, and availability rate in real time and upload it to the cloud or the local MES system, achieving digital and transparent management of your workshop’s production.
According to different working environments, we customize solutions for different protection levels. For dust-free plants in the pharmaceuticals and food industry, we use all stainless steel body and a no blind spots design, which complies with GMP/FDA hygiene standards.Â
For extreme temperature environments such as cold storage, we equip the machine with a heating compensation device, ensuring high-precision movement performance in low-temperature environments and meeting your strict working conditions requirements.
The entire design of the machine strictly conforms to ISO 10218 and CE certifications, ensuring the safety of operators. It is equipped with safety shields, safety doors, and emergency brake buttons on the outside. When detecting abnormal resistance, it will stop within milliseconds to avoid harm to operators or damage to precision products.
The energy consumption is very low. We consider energy conservation when designing. When there is a material shortage, the system will automatically enter a low-power standby mode. Compared with traditional mechanical cartoners that operate continuously, the overall energy consumption of robotic cartoners is reduced by 15% to 20%.
Core Components of Robotic Cartoners
Mult-Axis Robotic ArmÂ
The multi-axis design of the mechanical arm simulates a human arm and can handle complex packing, increasing the flexibility of the production line. Its precise grabbing, moving and placing actions achieve a stable production speed and provide you with stable production capacity.
Customized End-EffectorÂ
According to the physical characteristics of your product, we customize end-effectors like vacuum suction cups, grippers, or flexible fixtures, to stably grab and precisely place products. For fragile products, soft bags, or precision electronic components, it reduces the defect rate to nearly zero, reducing your production losses and packaging material waste.
Vision Positioning System
The visual positioning system identifies product location, posture, and batch information in real time through sensors, which reduces omissions and ensures the accuracy of product batch information, reducing the return rate of your product.
Control SystemÂ
It integrates PLC, HMI, and standard control buttons, and the intuitive operation interface lowers the technical threshold and training costs of operators. The control system achieves path planning, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and adaptive adjustment, ensuring efficient and stable operation under various working conditions.
Non-standard Customization of Robotic Cartoners
Customized End EffectorÂ
According to shapes, materials, and weights of your products, we offer multiple customization solutions, ensuring irregular-shaped and precision products can be grasped without loss.
Breathable bagged products: for bags with a breathable surface, the high-density sponge suction cups form a stable negative pressure to adsorb flexible packaging.
Fragile products: flexible pneumatic hand grippers simulate human hand touch and move at high speed without causing indentations to glass products or high-end cosmetic packaging.
Grab many products at once: Based on your packing array, we customize multi-head gripper to pick up and drop many products at once, increasing the packing output per unit time.
Customized Feeding and Sorting SystemÂ
The vibration tray feeding system and the multi-layer stacked buffer unit automatically convert the disordered outputs into recognizable timing patterns for the robots, thereby saving labor costs for feeding materials and increasing cartoning efficiency.
Special Process IntegrationÂ
For workshops with limited space, we recommend integrating multiple processes into the robotic cartoner, including code printing, weighing, labeling, or automatic instruction distribution. This reduces the overall floor area of the production line and machines can operate in high synchronization.Â
How to Choose A Robotic Cartoner?Â
When choosing a robotic cartoner, it’s important to cooperate with a trusted robotic cartoner manufacturer and supplier in China who provide flexible, high-quality machines according to your production needs.Â
Production SpeedÂ
The production speed of the machine directly affects overall production line ROI. insufficient speed can not handle large-scale orders, while too high speed leads to fund waste. In robotic cartoners, the four-axis structure is specifically designed for high-speed vertical stacking, while the six-axis robot is used for complex angle flipping.Â
We assess output per unit hour of your production line and preserve 15% to 20% capacity growth potential for your future business growth.
Space ArrangementÂ
Every square meter of the factory is related to costs. The compact robotic cartoner can be flexibly integrated into your conveyor lines or narrow workshops, without renovating the factory layout in large scale, thereby increasing the production output per unit area.
Material CompatibilityÂ
If your packaging line frequently switches production specifications, you need to pay attention to the switching speed of the end effector and HMI process. Due to a highly agile production line, you respond to various orders through extremely low line replacement costs without adding equipment.Â
Intelligent LevelÂ
The higher the intelligence level of a robotic cartoner is, the less it relies on human labor, which solves the problem of large personnel mobility. Digital control automatically corrects incoming materials and avoids obstacles, ensuring the long-term consistency of packing quality.
Total Cost of OwnershipÂ
Except for initial procurement cost, the long-term operational energy consumption level, the lifespan of wear parts, and the maintenance frequency are important factors of the total cost of ownership.
Choosing robotic cartoners with low energy consumption and long maintenance period reduces unplanned downtime losses and ensures production consistency, lowering the total cost of ownership.Â
