In order to adapt to the demand of diversification of gift box packaging, aiming at the low efficiency and high cost of the current production mode of artificial assembly line in packaging enterprises, an adhesive device for mounting box was designed. The device was based on the process of assembly line production mode and mainly composed of image acquisition unit, spray unit, grab unit and press unit. The image processing of a shell product and the motion simulation analysis of the manipulator were carried out in Matlab respectively. The result of image processing showed that Canny operator had better effect on the feature detection of shell image. The motion simulation analysis obtained the real-time variation of the displacement, velocity, acceleration data of each joint during the motion of the manipulator, the motion error of the manipulator was verified within the expected range by fitting the motion path of the manipulator in the simulation test and the preestablished one, which illustrates the comply with the design requirements.