Schneider Packaging Equipment ~ iP Robotic Palletizer

BREWERTON, N.Y.Schneider Packaging Equipment introduced its iP Robotic Palletizer for high-speed palletizing applications in minimal floor space. Equipped with a FANUC Robotics articulated arm robot, this high-level robotic palletizer is integrated with an automatic pallet lift and product collation system designed to handle products at significant speeds, even in harsh environments.

The iP robotic palletizer takes advantage of a minimal-movement design resulting in fast, reliable performance for palletizing an array of cased and bagged products. For precise product placement and highly stable loads, the integrated lift system detects the height of the top layer of product and automatically indexes the pallet downward as the unit load is built. The auto indexing minimizes the amount of motion required by the robot to perform palletizing while maximizing speed, efficiency, cost and labor savings. The high-level design allows for minimal floor space while the flexibility of the robot and its tooling design may help eliminate or speed up product changeovers. In many situations, this flexibility allows the system to palletize different SKUs, one after the other, taking product from multiple lines into one simple fast small palletizer.

The iP robotic palletizer is available as a dual station 1-in-2-out palletizing system or as a single station 1-in-1-out palletizing system, which can be fully automated with pallet transport conveyor, pallet dispensing and slip-sheet dispensing for a complete solution. Each system can be fully integrated with palletizing, stretch wrapping, labeling, product and pallet transport conveyor, AGVs, pallet dispensing and slip-sheet dispensing for a complete fully automatic solution.