Technical Articles
Engineering publications on palletizing, gripper selection and end-of-line automation planning.
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Cobot or Robot?
Cobot or Industrial Robot?
The choice between a cobot and an industrial robot is not settled by the safety fence. It follows peak rate, payload including the gripper, target pallet height, floor space and the risk assessment.
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Hood or Wrap?
Stretch Hood versus Stretch Wrapping
Stretch wrapping pre-stretches film and applies it around the load in a spiral; stretch hood turns the film into a hood, pulls it over the load and closes the top as well. The two methods diverge on protection, pack strength, load geometry and line design.
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Gripper Selection
Selecting a Palletizing Gripper
What decides whether a palletizing cell works is not the robot but the gripper at the end of it. The choice is made from five holding principles (vacuum, clamp, combined vacuum and clamp, layer and bag-specific grippers), narrowed by product surface, pack strength, release behaviour and target rate.
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