Designed for Efficient Stacking and
Palletizing of Products
Robotic palletizers, whether automatic or semi-automatic, are usually positioned between a pallet dispenser and a pallet conveyor line that carries incoming products. The products are picked up and placed on a pallet in an orderly manner by a hydraulic robotic arm which is equipped with suction cups or flat pincer grippers. A robotic palletizer, though dealing with one product at a time, is much quicker than manual work and also prevents exhaustion or injury risks.
A robotic palletizer can manage both heavy and delicate items and can be adjusted to suit different product types, including pails, drums, bags, cases, and bottles. In these applications, the machine is often named according to the product it handles—such as robotic pail palletizer, robotic drum palletizer, robotic bag palletizer, robotic case palletizer, or robotic bottle palletizer.
Additional models consist of articulated arm palletizers, selective compliant articulated robot arm (SCARA) palletizers and gantry-style palletizers.
There are apparent benefits of automatic and robotic palletizers over manual stacking that are, first, an increased stability in loading, second, greater precision, and third, increased rate of operation, and reduced injuries associated with workers. They highly minimise labour requirements and enhance safety and more loads can be transported simultaneously. The dollar amount to be invested is huge, but at times the long term gains will be many times what the cost is.