Benefits

Improves Safety

Industrial cyber security – Unit is optionally connected to your wifi/ethernet network.

Safety compliance and reporting – Complies with all Safety regulations.

Improves OEE Availability

Maintenance – The unit requires a yearly preventative maintenance visit only. No other maintenance is required.

Cleaning – No regular cleaning is required.

Operator unavailability – The unit requires no manual labour; once set up, it is completely automatic.

Significant equipment adjustments – Swapping from one SKU to another takes 10 seconds. Programming a new SKU takes no more than 5 minutes.

Equipment warm-up – From power down to powered up takes 2 minutes.

Improves OEE Performance

Product flow obstructions – The built-in infeed gate ensures that the correct number of cases are inducted into the pickup location.

Misfeeds – The built-in skewed conveyor ensures the cases are always presented correctly for the robot pick-up.

Sensor stops – A built-in vacuum sensor alerts the operator if the vacuum cups encounter a poorly formed case that cannot be picked up.

Checking – Once operating, no stops are required to check palletising performance.

Substandard materials – Because we have vacuum or mechanical pick options, we can deal with large variations in case quality.

Operation below nameplate – Following a trial establishes the maximum performance capability, other than packaging quality or case overweight, there is nothing likely to slow the palletising rate.

Lack of operator training or operator inefficiency – There is no operator involvement in the palletising process other than selecting the correct SKU.

Flexible – Can be configured to stack two different SKUs or even use one location for slip sheets. It can stack to a height of 1,550mm, with an option to include a telescopic mast to increase the maximum stack height to 2,500mm. AMR-ready: Optional docking stations make Instant Palletiser work cells ready for pallet positioning by autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). 

Improves OEE Quality

Rework – No rework will ever be required with a robot palletiser as the very nature of robots is they gently pick and place cases.

Scrap during test runs, start-up and changeovers – No scrap is generated during set-up or operation.

Pallet stack quality– As the cases are placed exactly according to the pallet pattern program, each pallet stack is always built perfectly.

Lower Cost of Ownership

Purchase price – In a single-shift operation, payback is typically 2.5 years and just over one year for two shifts. As the unit eliminates OHS manual strain injuries, the potential insurance benefits are significant.

Overheads – Compact and space-saving with a small footprint of 3.61 m x 2.63 m, including two pallets.

Change parts – No change parts are required.

Maintenance – An annual 1/2 day preventative maintenance visit is recommended.

Repairs – The robot is supplied with a two-year warranty. A spare parts kit of wear parts and possible failure parts costs less than $4,000.

Training– Training to operate and maintain the unit takes less than half a day.

Expected working life – The unit has an expected working life of 10 years.