Pick-and-place deltas handle the flat and the fast; the awkward part is orientation. The Sipro SIAX D3 500 builds tilt into the kinematics - three translation axes plus wrist and tilt, 3+2 degrees of freedom in total - so cookies land flat, blisters drop at an angle and cosmetic parts present label-side-up, all inside a 500 mm working envelope at 120 cycles per minute.

What does 3+2 mean for a packaging engineer?

Two fewer stations: tilting and wrist rotation happen in the same pick as the transfer, with 0.1 mm repeatability holding placement tolerances through a 2 kg payload. The robot weighs 25 to 32 kg mounted, runs from ordinary 220 V single-phase power at 1.2 to 1.5 kW, and carries IP55 sealing as standard - IP65 optional - for the washdown-adjacent zones where food, bakery and pharmaceutical lines actually live.

One delta size or a range?

The SIAX D3 family scales around the same control philosophy: D3 700 adds working range to 700 mm, D3 1200 reaches four kilograms of payload on 400 V power, and D3 1600 takes the family to a 1600 mm diameter with 5 kg. Designed and built in Verona with the R&D and manufacturing on one campus, the range targets confectionery, bakery, cosmetics and pharmaceutical picking where 120 honest cycles a minute beats a faster robot that stops.