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Pail & Drum Palletizing

Six-axis industrial robots with combined vacuum and clamp gripping for precise stacking of pails and drums.

Robot arm arranging blue drums in rows on a pallet

Pails and drums carry a high centre of gravity on an irregular surface, and a handled pail is not gripped the way a closed drum is. The system is therefore built around a gripper that combines vacuum and clamping.

Placement is handled by a six-axis industrial robot, whose axis count provides the approach angle needed to seat the container squarely on the pallet. Stacking patterns are defined per product.

Operation is fully automatic through a PLC and touchscreen HMI, leaving the operator with recipe selection and pallet changes.

Parts of the system

Robot arm arranging blue drums in rows on a pallet
  1. 01 Automatic Pallet Magazine
  2. 02 Product Infeed
  3. 03 Application-Specific Gripper
  4. 04 Full Pallet Discharge

Technical Specifications

Robot type
6-axis industrial robot
Positioning
High precision placement
Layer configuration
Custom stacking patterns
End-of-arm tool
Vacuum & clamp gripper
Automation level
Fully automatic
Integration
Ready for production lines
Control interface
PLC + touchscreen HMI
Palletizing · Pail & Drum

Let us look at your containers

Share the container type, filled weight and units per pallet, and we will design the gripper and the stacking pattern around them.

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