Palletizing Systems
Palletizing systems are mechanized equipment that are used to load
products onto palletizers. Because manual pallet loading can be time
consuming and labor intensive, automatic palletizing as performed by
palletizing systems is a money and time-saving process.
Many facilities are turning to
automated and semi-automatic palletizing systems since individual
packaged units can be heavy, awkward, and physically strenuous to handle
manually, thus reducing potential worker injuries. Products that
palletizing systems are typically used to handle include bundles, trays,
drums,
cases, pails, barrels, totes, bags and sheets. Often, palletizing
systems are designed to handle a single type of product. Such systems
include bag palletizers, case palletizers, drum palletizers
and bottle palletizers. They can also be designed to handle several
different types of packages. The material handling applications that
palletizing systems are most often used for include shipping,
warehousing, packaging and distributing in both manufacturing production
lines and order fulfillment operations. Generally appealing to users
with mid to high-range needs, palletizing systems benefit industries
including pharmaceutical, food processing, warehousing, agricultural,
commercial, electronics and medical.
Able to be pneumatically,
hydraulically or electro-mechanically powered, palletizing systems can
be either fully automatic or semi-automatic. Automated palletizing
systems consist of two main types: robotic palletizing systems and
conveyorized palletizing systems. Robotic palletizing systems typically
consist of a robotic palletizer stationed between a conveyor line of
incoming product units and a pallet dispenser. A hydraulic robotic arm
lifts cases, bottles, bags or drums using flat pincer arms or suction
cup arms in organized rows onto a pallet, stacking units with
near-perfect precision. Robotic palletizing systems may be altered to
work with different types of product units and are excellent for
handling fragile or heavy product units, although they may be slower, as
they can only place one unit or row at a time. Conveyorized palletizing
systems can be either automatic, requiring no manual involvement, or
semi-automatic, requiring loads to be manually connected and
disconnected from the palletizer lifting arm. In conveyorized
palletizing systems the packaged units are received by roller conveyors
and are continuously transferred and sorted to the pallets. There are
two main types: low level and high level palletizing systems, both of
which have a feed area that receives the goods that are to be
palletized. In low level palletizing systems, or floor-entry palletizing systems, products are loaded from
the ground level, while high level palletizers are loaded from above or
from the story above.
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