Special Purpose Gripper: Palletizing

What Is Palletizing?
Palletizing or palletization most often refers to the act of placing products
on a pallet for shipment or storage in logistics supply chains.
Ideally, products are stacked in a pattern that maximizes the amount of
product in the load by weight and volume while being stable enough to
prevent products from shifting, toppling, or crushing each other.
Traditionally, palletizing was accomplished by manual labor, but
increasingly automated systems are taking over the task of palletizing
products.

Palletizing process is being done by Robo.

Here Palletizer (tool) is used as an end – effector. Robotic palletizers have developed to the point where they can
palletize several different types of products on one pallet.

Pneumatically actuated mechanism is used to clamp the bags from the sides, keeping bag and tool centered to
prevent misalignment and maintain palletizing consistency.

These grippers are manually adjustable ± 95mm to accommodate different bag widths.

The grippers are hard coated for protection in extreme environments.

SPECIAL PURPOSE GRIPPER:BAGGER

Bagging process is being done by Robo. Here bagger (tool) is used as an end – effector.

Robotic bagging automation in particular mimics human movements to take the human being out of
the process without sacrificing the yield of the process.

This does not eliminate the need for good staff. Instead, it provides an opportunity to remove the
repetitive, unskilled tasks that many humans find boring and unfulfilling yet are critical to meeting
production needs.

With robotic bagging automation, software is designed to mimic human movements. Handling
products, picking and placing items, packing cases, and palletizing become routine and efficient.

SPECIAL PURPOSE TOOL:SEWING ROBOT

Sewing is being done by Robo. Here sewing machine (tool) is used as an end – effector.
The automation revolution has arrived in fashion!

The apparel stitching by robots has shown that the clothing industry was among the first
to be mechanized.

Electric sewing machines have been in use for well over a hundred years. But the need
is that they require skilled human hands to guide the materials. Now as robotic
automation has evolved, it has considerably reduced the number of workers needed for
mass production of clothing.

A Georgia Tech spin-off, SoftWear Automation in Atlanta, claims to have built a practical
sewing robot in the year 2012which is based on a much higher-tech approach, one that combines
machine vision and advanced manipulators.

The company’s Sewbots use a combination of patented high-speed computer vision and
lightweight robotics to steer fabric to and through the needle with greater speed and accuracy
than humans!

Key Reasons to chose Robotic Palletizers

Flexibility – Able to handle multiple product weights and sizes with little to no change
over •

Reliability – 99% plus available uptime for palletizing

• Low Maintenance – Fewer moving parts

• Safety – Eliminates back & repetitive motion injuries

• Easy to Program –

• Capable of overlap stacking bags –

• Low Utility Requirements –