BÖWE SYSTEC card mailing systems are well-known for their indisputable reliability when it comes to processing personalized plastic cards. With the new card mailing system Cardcube, another innovative product has been added to the current portfolio. With a performance of up to 4,000 cards per hour, Cardcube is ideally suited for medium-sized production volumes. This compact system offers innovative and smart solutions to face existing and new challenges in card processing on the smallest possible footprint. Cardcube utilizes a newly designed folding unit that prevents imprints of an embossed card appearing on the document and comes with a special feature: A robot attaches up to four plastic cards in any orientation – thus providing new levels of flexibility in card application. Cardcube shares the same 100 percent integrity throughout its processes as the established card mailing system Pace.ast and easy changeover from one job to the next, even if the batch sizes are small. Reading modules and sensors provide information about where each card and each carrier is located within the system. The result is the highest integrity throughout the entire production process.
Processing up to 4,000 cards per hour, Cardcube is the ideal system for medium-sized production volumes. Its modular design allows for customized solutions to meet individual requirements in card mailing – from basic to the most complex applications, with 100 percent integrity.
Cardcube’s attaching station reliably attaches up to 4,000 cards per hour to the card carrier using a new, patent-pending technique: A robot automatically and securely attaches up to four plastic cards to the corresponding document. Cards can be placed freely on the carrier while positions may vary from document to document. The robot can do even more: In case of a missing carrier document, all the corresponding cards are put into parking positions until the reprint has been completed. Diverted documents are automatically rejected and destroyed without interrupting the production process. The manual intervention usually involved with diverted cards is now eliminated.
he new flap folding unit enables several folding geometries with an unprecedented level of quality: As the folding unit’s “hammer” operates only in the area of the fold and does not affect the entire document, the embossed cards leave no imprint on the carrier document. The actual folding process is performed while the carrier is brought to a halt so that the inertia of the attached cards has no impact on the folding accuracy – regardless of whether none, one or up to four cards are attached to the document.
Card channel and attaching station comprise Cardcube’s technology center. The card channel can be linked to the system from two sides as needed while at the same time optimizing the workspace for the operator. Ten or 16 stations can be freely configured with feeder magazines, various readers, turning units, restacking magazines, card buffers, mass storage units, and labeling modules. The attaching station’s robot reliably mounts up to 4,000 cards per hour onto the corresponding documents.