SmartIBC
The most flexible automatic preparation for powders batch
The robotic system for opening, emptying and dosing industrial bags.
SmartPick depalletises bags, cuts them, empties them and doses the contents with no operator: no dust on the shop floor, no manual lifting, full batch traceability, kg by kg, down to pallet and bag. Hygienic design and ATEX with official certifications, chosen by the leading food and chemical groups.
9 patents · hundreds of installations on every continent · since 2008
Emptying bags by hand means dust on the shop floor, repeated lifting of 25 kg, recipe errors and no record of what went into the process. SmartPick takes the operator away from the bag: the robot picks it, cuts it and empties it under suction, logging every batch. Approved by the Italian health and safety authorities (ASL) as a solution to bag handling and dust exposure problems.
SmartPick patents Gripping, cutting, emptying, dosing and software logic: proprietary technologies. |
first SmartPick Hundreds of installations on every continent, built on 100 years of Sacchi experience with powders. |
kg by kg Every batch can be traced to a pallet and a bag. |
Official certifications Chosen by the leading food and chemical groups. |
| Come and see SmartPick live We always have several SmartPick systems under construction in our workshop: see them running and bring a pallet of your bags, we cut them together and verify feasibility before any quotation. |
Pallets enter the cell on fixed stations or roller conveyors. The anthropomorphic robot, guided by the SmartGrip gripping head and the SmartPick-AT software, locates the bag, picks it, carries it to the cutting hopper, opens it and empties it by shaking it just as an operator would. The empty bag is compacted automatically. With orderly pallets no machine vision is needed; for randomly stacked pallets there is SmartEye-AI.
The only system able to handle every type of packaging: paper, single- and double-layer plastic, raffia, aluminium, jute and laminates. Up to 100 kg per bag. Also adaptable to palletised boxes and drums.
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| SmartPick-Easy Recipes: whole bags |
| SmartPick-Advanced Recipes: by weight |
| SmartPick Runner Recipes: flexible, many ingredients |
| SmartPick Runner with mobile scales Recipes: flexible batches |
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A SmartPick cell takes up little more than 6 x 6 metres: that space holds the bag pallets, the robot, the cutting stations and everything needed to run safely and dust-free. The picture shows the typical layout with three pallet stations and three hoppers; the numbers refer to the legend below.
Quick cleaning. A product changeover only requires vacuuming the cutting hopper; with several hoppers dedicated to different products, not even that.
Modular. The same cell can be configured with 1 to 4 pallet stations and as many hoppers, fixed stations or roller conveyors, one or more compactors and the empty-pallet stacking station. Hourly capacity grows in steps by adding stations or a second robot.
All from Sacchi. Mechanics, gripping head, cutting stations and SmartPick-AT software are born in the same factory: one partner, from layout to commissioning.
SmartPick was designed by imitating operators: cutting hoppers in front, pallets behind and, in the middle, an anthropomorphic robot that picks the required bags, cuts them in the right hopper and empties them by shaking, just as a person would. Two patented components make the difference: the SmartGrip gripping head and the SmartCut cutting hopper.
SmartGrip is an advanced gripping head, the result of ten years of development: it combines mixed gripping techniques with an array of dedicated sensors, read and interpreted by the software thousands of times per second. With a single tool the robot picks bags up to 100 kg in paper, single- and double-layer plastic, raffia, raffia-plastic, paper-plastic, natural jute and aluminium-plastic. Optional devices are available for boxes, drums and pails.
Orderly pallets: no machine vision needed. The system and the SmartGrip gripping head are so advanced that they need neither machine vision nor artificial intelligence. Just position the pallet, scan its barcode and enter the palletising pattern, or recall it from the database: SmartPick is ready to work.
Randomly stacked pallets: SmartEye-AI. When bags are stacked completely at random, SmartEye-AI comes into play: a multidimensional machine-vision system that feeds a neural inference engine with several types of information. It is trained on millions of images from the Sacchi archive, collected in hundreds of plants, and is the most advanced system available on the market.
SmartPick handles a virtually unlimited number of raw materials and cutting hoppers at the same time.
SmartPick-Easy is designed for recipes managed by counting whole bags of each component. No weighing: the components enter the same cutting hopper in sequence, in the quantities set by the recipe. It is the simplest and most compact SmartPick configuration.
Cutting hoppers
1
Robot
1 SmartPick
Components
up to 4-5 without pallet change
Dosing
bag counting
Empty bags: removable container or dedicated automatic compactor.
Installation: the dosed product reaches its destination through various conveying systems, so the cell can also be installed away from the process plant.
SmartPick-Advanced is the configuration for recipes managed by weight. Each component has its own cutting hopper with load cells: the robot keeps it topped up and the hopper doses the quantity set in the recipe, with the required accuracy.
Cutting hoppers
one per component
Robot
1 SmartPick
Components
up to 4-5 without pallet change, one per hopper
Dosing
by weight, in the hopper
How the robot works: it reads the weight in each hopper and, when needed, cuts the bags required so that there is always enough product for the next dosing.
Empty bags and installation: removable container or automatic compactor; the dosed product can be conveyed to its destination, so the cell can also be installed away from the process plant.
When there are many components or the plant must grow over time. One or more SmartPick robots are mounted on the Runner travelling system, designed for dusty environments, and move along a row of cutting hoppers, each with its own pallet behind it.
Components and hoppers
no limit
Robot
one or more SmartPick on Runner linear axis
Pallets
one per hopper
Expandable
yes, over time
How it works: Runner, integrated into the automation, brings the robot to the station that needs refilling. The robot reads each hopper's level through load cells and cuts the bags needed for the next dosing; in the gravimetric configuration the hoppers dose to the required accuracy.
Growth: new hoppers, pallets and robots are added when needed. Empty bags in a removable container or automatic compactor; dosed product can be conveyed far from the process plant.
Why hundreds of companies around the world have chosen SmartPick, in ten points.
Come and visit us: a SmartPick robot is waiting for you.
SP-AT is the universal software that manages the basic functions of every SmartPick, now in its fourth generation on a touch panel. It is configured to the customer's needs and grows with optional modules.
SP-AT L2 is SmartPick's MES-level software: it comes into play when a wide variety of materials must be managed and dosed in precise sequences, in dialogue with the company's information systems.
Seeing means understanding the problem. From this idea came SP-GlanceTouch (SP-GT): set-up operations are guided by a dedicated camera, directly on the touch screen.
The result: SP becomes accessible even to operators with minimal training.
SmartBatch comes from 40 years of experience in dosing plants and is the evolution of advanced recipe management. It is based on a database platform, a powerful recipe and parameter editor and an intuitive graphic interface: it archives raw materials and components, and creates, saves and puts complex recipes into production.
Available on an industrial HMI or on a PC, locally or in a multi-station client-server architecture (Windows Server) with a relational database. It is multi-protocol: it talks to Sacchi plants, to the customer's PLCs and to ERP and MES systems. Integrated with SmartPick and SmartTipping it becomes a high-value Industry 4.0 application.
Note: the description may include optional features not present in the basic version.
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