Technologies

Secondary Packaging

Three-stage secondary packaging systems: case, carton and tray forming, product loading, and case closing.

Case, carton and tray forming
Vision-guided product grouping and packing
Closing with hot melt adhesive or tape
Automatic format changeover for multi-format production

Palletizing

From cobot cells to high-level palletizers: robotic palletizing and depalletizing for cases, bags, pails and drums.

Pallet Packaging

Stretch wrapping, stretch hood and vertical/horizontal strapping: securing the pallet for the journey ahead.

Pallet wrapping with stretch film
Heat-free stretch hood application
Vertical strapping
Horizontal strapping

Transport & Storage

AMR, AGV and automated storage systems that move full pallets from the end of the line to the warehouse without a driver.

Autonomous pallet transport from line end to warehouse
Routing to the dispatch area
Automated put-away and retrieval in high-density racking

Automatic case erector with its flat-blank magazine loaded

Case, Carton & Tray Forming

Forming up to 35 cases per minute from flat blanks: cases, cartons and trays, with hot melt glue or tape.

Case loading machine with twin delta robots and an operator panel

Case, Carton & Tray Packing

Vision-guided packing at up to 165 products (18 cases) per minute, built for multi-format production.

Enclosed case sealing unit with a guarded frame and integrated conveyor

Case, Carton & Tray Closing

Closing filled cases at up to 42 per minute with hot melt glue or tape, across multiple case formats.

Compact cobot palletizing cell with a stacked carton pallet and a touchscreen control cabinet

Compact Palletizer

A fully enclosed compact cobot palletizing cell in two frame sizes (Standard and XL), handling up to 50 kg and pallets up to 2850 mm.

Custom cell combining case forming, robotic palletizing and pallet stacking stations

Custom Palletizing

Purpose-built palletizing cells: single or multiple infeed, unit, row or layer picking, products up to 57 kg and pallets up to 2743 mm.

Robot arm stacking bags arriving on the conveyor into layers on a pallet

Bag Palletizing

Palletizing for paper, PP woven, PE and valve bags at up to 20 bags per minute, with bag weights from 5 to 50 kg.

Robot arm arranging blue drums in rows on a pallet

Pail & Drum Palletizing

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

High-level layer palletizer with access stairs, platform and pallet magazine

High Level Palletizer

A high-speed palletizer on a heavy-duty steel frame that forms complete layers and transfers them from an elevated infeed.

Robot arm combining cases of different sizes and colours into a single mixed pallet

Mixed Palletizing

Multiple SKUs on a single pallet: order-based mixed pallet building with configurable pallet sizes.

Depalletizing system with an empty pallet magazine, conveyor line and a robot arm unloading cases

Depalletizing

Emptying full pallets of bottles, drums, jugs, pails and cases at up to 30 products per minute and 57 kg.

Robot arm inside a fenced cell cutting bags and emptying them into a stainless hopper

Bag Opening & Emptying System

A low-dust system that opens bags automatically and discharges their contents completely into the process.

Gantry-frame stretch wrapping machine carrying the yellow wrapping arm

Stretch Wrapping

Pallet wrapping with stretch film, where load stability and film consumption are set in the same recipe.

Stretch hood machine drawing a stretched film hood over a bagged load on the conveyor

Stretch Hood

A heat-free stretch film hood that closes over the top and all four sides of the load in one piece.

Vertical strapping machine applying a strap around a carton pallet on the conveyor

Vertical Strapping

A strapping station that binds the load to the pallet on the vertical axis.

Horizontal Strapping

A station that straps the pallet load around its perimeter, tying the layers to each other.

AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot)

Autonomous mobile robots that read their surroundings and move full pallets from the line to the warehouse without fixed infrastructure.

Yellow and black automated guided vehicle carrying a loaded pallet along a guide line

AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle)

Automated guided vehicles moving full pallets from the line end to the warehouse along defined routes.

High-bay automated warehouse: multi-level racking aisles filled with pallet locations and a red shuttle carrying a pallet of cases between them; the close-up bubble at top right shows the shuttle placing the pallet into its location

ASRS / Automated Storage

Automated put-away and retrieval of pallets in high-density racking.

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PLC & HMI Control

A PLC architecture that brings the whole cell under one control layer, with a touchscreen HMI as the operator's way in.

Systems carrying this technology: 4

How It Works

The technology's role in the cell

The robot never works alone in an end-of-line cell: conveyors, pallet magazine, slip sheet dispensing, safety guarding and pallet discharge all move together. The PLC layer is their common language: sequencing, interlocks and fault behaviour are defined there.

The touchscreen HMI is the system's face to the operator. Recipe selection, format changeover, status and alarms run from a single screen, so nobody has to drop into the robot's own interface to run the cell.

Capabilities

All cell components brought under a single PLC architecture
Recipe selection and format changeover from the touchscreen HMI
Operating status, production flow and alarms on one screen
Safety guarding and interlocks as part of the control architecture
Fully automatic operation, with operator intervention concentrated at defined points

APPROACH

The whole cell comes under one control layer.

Single PLC architecture

Component-by-component control

A common language for components

Single PLC architecture
Conveyors, pallet magazine, slip sheet feeding, guarding and pallet discharge sit in one architecture.

Component-by-component control
Each component runs on its own control; sequencing and interlocks stay scattered.
Operator interface

Single PLC architecture
Recipe selection, changeover, status and alarms all run from one screen.

Component-by-component control
Running the cell means dropping into the robot's own interface.
Fault behaviour

Single PLC architecture
Interlocks and fault behaviour are defined in the control layer.

Component-by-component control
Behaviour stays per component, with no shared definition for the cell.
Safety guarding

Single PLC architecture
Guarding and interlocks are part of the control architecture.

Component-by-component control
Safety remains a separate layer bolted on afterwards.

Related Products

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