Palletizer Robot: 4 Myths About Robots in Your Packaging Line
We often hear about price and other issues in arguments against robotic solutions. However, such arguments are based on insufficient information and an incomplete assessment of ROI. Here’s how to properly assess what you can benefit from robotic automation.
MYTH # 1: Robots are too expensive
Palletizing robots are less expensive than they were just a few years ago and are now within the financial reach of many manufacturing companies. Robots enable you to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with little or no downtime, and open the door to increase productivity and profit accordingly. Automation can be even more beneficial for processes involving multiple production lines, because one robot can handle multiple operations at the same time and palletize multiple products at the same time from different production lines onto different pallets.
MYTH # 2: Robots are unreliable
Palletizing robots have built a reputation for reliability in many industries, from consumer products to food, chemicals, feed and many more. Depending on the type of robot, its reliability can be determined by the parameter of the number of working hours before the appearance of a theoretical error. This reliability improves the accuracy of preventive maintenance and repair planning. The increased process reliability is increased because the robots are designed to achieve the highest manufacturing and sanitation standards even under extreme operating conditions.
MYTH # 3: Robots are hard to operate
Robotic Palletizer function reliably in part because their easy-to-use interfaces do not require highly trained operators. This ease of operation is enhanced by the inclusion of a Human Machine Interface (HMI) and a programmable logic controller (PLC), which facilitate automation, which increases the ability of robots to improve production efficiency.
MYTH # 4: Robots don’t benefit factory workers
Robotic equipment is constantly being improved to provide new ways to automate production lines and reduce workplace injuries. In addition to protecting employee health through improved safety and ergonomics, automation reduces re-injury as robots’ free employees from repetitive tasks. The robots thus free employees to reassign value-added jobs, lower employers’ labor costs, and free manufacturers from having to replace some of their retiring employees. What about work? While some jobs are slowly replacing, millions of others are created by robotics in areas such as design, integration, and programming.
Looking for more convincing facts? Here are the more indirect benefits of robotics:
- Increased production flexibility, since reprogramming robots for different projects or using different programs for different production cycles is faster and cheaper than retraining employees
- The potential for lag is reduced because one robot can handle multiple operations at the same time.
- The need for space is reduced because robots can operate in more configurations and in more limited space than humans.
- Improved scheduling through reliable, predictable performance
Palletizing creates convenient conditions for the logistics process: fast and safe loading, transportation and unloading of goods
Process automation
Palletizing, packaging, picking, other operations related to handling
For whom is it suitable
A universal solution for different types of production: work with bags, boxes, sheets and other goods
The cost
Calculated depending on the client’s production volumes. Leasing possible
Specifications
Load up to 1300 kg, radius of action – 3600 mm, speed – up to 27 cycles per minute
Palletizing is the final stage of the production process, which consists in loading any objects onto pallets, pallets or other transport containers in a certain order.
Depalleting is the reverse operation, that is, the process of unloading a loaded object.
