Robotic Layer Picking: 5 Industry 4.0 ready tools

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Industry 4.0 readiness asks for advanced solutions in Industrial Palletizing. Robotic Layer Picking is one of the most advanced practices that eliminates both unnecessary costs and health safety hazards. Below you can find five vendors that specialize in robotic material handling systems.

Kaufman Engineered Systems

Kaufman Engineered Systems applies Fanuc robot technology to provide customers complete palletizing system solutions with increased line efficiency and production, improved quality, flexible lines as well as reduction in labor injuries and staffing requirements.

As line automation experts, Kaufman can customize equipment to suit customer system requirements.

Solutions may be as simple as a dedicated palletizer, or as complex as a multi-line handling and palletizing system. These include robotic palletizing, depalletizing, case packing, high speed picking, labeling, stretch wrapping, pallet conveying, pallet stacking, pallet dispensing and other material handling offerings.

Saxenhuber

Saxenhuber is specialized in intra-company transport logistics with high-quality conveying and storage technology components as well as tailor-made solutions. In the Pallet Wrapping field, Saxenhuber offers solutions ranging from semi-automatic wrapping machines with turntable to fully-automatic packing systems.

Industrial robots are applied in dangerous and unreasonable conditions. They perform stereotypical assembly line work and expedite the work flow. The use of industrial robots increases product quality, while reducing operational costs.

Saxenhuber’s best seller is SaxMaxX, a simple, cost-effective and quick pallet magazine system for the secure and space-saving stacking of pallets that improves working conditions and ensures the effectiveness of the corresponding processes.

Project Automation & Engineering

project is an innovative group of companies in Germany that covers the complete line of secondary packaging, materials handling, service and all relevant fields.

project’s wide range of products extends from carryhandle applicators, adhesive labeling machines, palletizing machines, portal robots, materials handling equipment, production equipment to special purpose machines.

project creates Robots that are:

• are flexible & powerful
• are cost-effective
• integrate easily
• increase productivity
• can be customized easily
• employ sophisticated gripper technology

DAN Palletiser

DAN-Palletiser is a leading supplier with a combined technical experience of more than 200 years in the development of palletising and de-palletising systems for products as diverse as plastic trays, open and closed boxes, buckets, newspapers SRS crates, bags and sacks, trays and bottles.

DAN palletiser has developed and delivered worldwide more than 1000 palletising robots that palletise buckets, crates, bottles and other forms of packaging.

Europack

Founded in 1998 in Italy by a group of highly experienced technicians and managers, Europack strives to manufacture high quality standard end of line machinery.

Europack manufactures Robotic, Rotating and Cartesian Palletizers, Picking up and Handling Devices, as well as Hardware & Software for Command and Control Units.

We appreciate your feedback if you or your company have used these tools at george.kollias@smarterchains.com.

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This is the second post from a two-post series on Industrial Palletizing. The first post deals with End-of-line Palletizing.