Decuna delivered to a laboratory as a "turn-key" installation an automatic sorting line for milk samples. The project was managed end-to-end, from requirements capture, desing, manufacturing, integration and commissioning, including robot tooling desing and robot integration.

The sorting line is multi-purpose:

• first of all, the samples need to be placed on plastic pucks, so that they can be conveyed
• data acqusition is needed, reading the barcode on every sample and introducing the data in the system
• finally, the samples are grouped by test type, unloaded from the pucks into the racks

The line intregrates different machines that perform operations such as lid opening, injecting preservative and lid closing. The robot installed is able to handle both racks and samples with a special gripper, places the tube samples in the racks and then the racks in a stair, ready to be picked by operators and loaded to the milk testing equipment