A method and system for packing ice cream items in ice cream compartments comprising, providing ice cream items on a conveyor and initiating a pick and place sequence. First step of the pick and place sequence is picking up a first predetermined number of ice cream items from the conveyor by a plurality of robot arms, in a second step of said pick and place sequence delivering said first predetermined number of ice cream items by said plurality of robot arms in at least two different ice cream compartments, in a third step of said pick and place sequence picking up a second predetermined number of ice cream items from said conveyor by said plurality of robot arms, in a forth step of said pick and place sequence delivering said second predetermined number of ice cream items by said plurality of robot arms in said at least two different ice cream compartments wherein at least one of said plurality of robot arms is delivering an ice cream item in a different ice cream compartment compared to said second step of said pick and place sequence.

1. Method of preparing confectionary products for packaging in a side-loader packaging machine, where the confectionary products are conveyed one by one on a first pocket conveyor, and where a picking robot is arranged for picking up a predetermined number of ice cream products from said first pocket conveyor and transferring the confectionary products to a bulking conveyor, said bulking conveyor having compartments suitable to accommodate a predetermined number of confectionary products in one or more layers in each compartment, where the picking robot can be in a first position above one or more compartments to be filled, and a second position above the pocket conveyor, where a) in a first step the picking robot, pick up a predetermined number of confectionary products corresponding to the number of confectionary products in a first layer from the pocket conveyor and thereafter positions the picking robot above one or more empty compartments on the bulking conveyor; b) in a further step determine that a further predetermined number of confectionary products corresponding to the total number of confectionary products needed for filling all consecutive layers are available on the pocket conveyor, ready to be picked up; c) releases the picked up confectionary products into the one or more compartment, and d) the picking robot moves to pick up the further predetermined number of confectionary products from the pocket conveyor, and e) transfers the further predetermined number of products to the compartment creating a further layer of confectionary products, and f) repeat steps d) and e)) until the desired number of layers are arranged in the compartment, whereafter g) repeat steps a) to f).