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Revolutionary picking, packing, palletizing processes in the beverage industry
Challenge
- Palletizing of beer cans
Solution
- Beer cans are fed into the system via two conveyors
- Incoming plastic-wrapped packs of cans are picked up by 4 robots
- Individual packs are distributed onto three, six or nine conveyor belts; these transport the cans to three palletizing stations
- Stacking on pallets
- The system works in three-shift operation 24/7
- Cooperation between 10 robots
- Speed of approximately 30 m per minute
- Flexible gripper design with mechanical and pneumatic components
Result
- Palletizing of 100,000 beer cans/hour
- 80 different variants – virtually no conversion work
- Hundred percent process reliability through the use of Motoman robots
- Fast conversion of the system at the press of a button
- Maximum fail-safety
- High efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the system
