Palletizing robots
Automatic palletizing systems
Automatic palletizing systems using robots or automatic palletizing cells.
End of line is considered the interaction, modification or termination of products in the final part of their production process. After the production of a product, it must be marketed and distributed. To date, dimensions and weights have been standardized once the product has been finished and packaged, in order to facilitate its transportation and storage, in addition to standardizing its treatment and reducing production, distribution or logistics costs.
In this environment, automatic palletizing systems using robots arise, which serve for automatic palletizing in those productions with high cadences or when the working conditions, ergonomics, weight of the products, environmental or hygiene conditions, require that the work not be carried out directly with the manipulation or intervention of man. The implementation of an automatic palletizing system carries out the engineering of the product, final pallet, production and logistics processes, as well as studying whether the installation of a robot and accessory conveyors is a amortizable investment in relation to manual palletizing.
Depending on the units produced and the number of references to be palletized, you can choose between different types of systems. The most innovative robots are multi-reference palletizers,[1] which carry out palletizing regardless of the morphology of the products, being able to palletize products with a high slenderness, such as bottles. On the other hand, the product picking system is decisive, since taking the individual product or several products, or the complete layer, will determine the final rate of the automatic palletizing system.
In this way we must take into account the following considerations:
In general, we can classify intake systems into:
Transport systems before and after automatic palletizing
Automating a production process can have the objective of solving an increase in production, a change in product or packaging, implementation of new lines, seeking greater management and organization, up to the connection of different areas, creation of automatic warehouses, organization of goods according to destinations.