ICS Collating System

ICS stands for Independent Carriers System. It is a patented feeding system developed by VORTEX SYSTEMS and has already been installed in over 400 companies worldwide.

The great advantage of the ICS feeder is the ability to de-synchronise product  infeed from product picking Due to the creation of an intermediate buffer. The length of the ICS can vary depending on the buffer and speeds required.

Each single carrier is equipped with a holder to transport the product.

A maintenance-free chain transports the carriers by friction.

The carrier releasing systems are servo driven, providing very high loading speed (up to 600 products/minute).

The handling of different products with different sizes is possible without any need for  hardware changes, and the number of products to be handled simultaneously can be changed by software

Main features:

     Very high speed floating bucket technology

     Handling of different products with different sizes, without any hardware change

     Products delivered from single lane or multilane wrappers

     It allows to manages products, arriving from two or more single lane wrappers, to be boxed in one unit

     Unlike racetrack systems it ensures shock free handling of the products

Servo driven floating carriers loading (infeed area)

     Broad or narrow edge leading bucket loading

     Infeed on demand

     Operational speed  from 300 to 1200 ppm (depending on product size and number of ICS systems)

     Total jam free operation

Servo driven  floating  carriers handling (discharge  area)

     Controlled speed  avoids hard product impact or misplacing

     Number of products to be handled simultaneously can be changed by software

Automatic feeding for cartoner and flow wrappers

     The ICS can be integrated for feeding any horizontal cartoner, and flow wrapper substituting the traditional bucket conveyor of the machine. The main advantages of this application are:

1 - The optimal product timing

2 - Possibility of inserting multiple products in each single carrier

     Handling of different products with different sizes, without any hardware changes