What Is a Palletizer?

Palletizing machine is to place the cartons that have been packed into containers on a pallet or pallet (wooden, plastic) in a certain arrangement for automatic stacking. It can stack multiple layers and then push it out, which is convenient for the forklift to transport to the warehouse for storage. This equipment adopts PLC + touch screen control to realize intelligent operation management, which is simple and easy to grasp. Can greatly reduce labor and reduce labor intensity. The palletizer is a device that automatically transfers the material bags, cartons or other packaging materials conveyed by the conveyor according to the working method required by the customer, and transports the stacked materials.

The automatic palletizer is a high-tech product integrating machine and electricity. The middle and low position palletizer can meet the production needs of low and medium output. According to the required grouping method and number of layers, palletizing of various products such as material bags, plastic blocks, boxes, etc. can be completed. Optimized design makes the stack tight and neat ^[1]

According to the level of intelligence, automatic palletizers are divided into two types: robotic palletizers and mechanical palletizers. Mechanical palletizers can be divided into: gantry palletizers, column palletizers, and robotic arm palletizers.

According to the industry, the automatic palletizer is divided into: food and beverage industry palletizer, cement automatic loading palletizer, industrial product palletizer, etc.

The middle and low position palletizers are mainly composed of flattening conveyors, slow-stop conveyors, indexing conveyors, pallet warehouses, pallet conveyors, marshalling machines, bag pushing devices, palletizing devices, and pallet conveyors. Its structural design is optimized and its movement is stable and reliable. The palletizing process is fully automatic and requires no manual intervention during normal operation, and has a wide range of applications.

The layer of workpiece on the plate meets the requirements of the pallet. The plate and the workpiece move forward to the vertical plane of the pallet. The upper stopper lever is lowered, and the other three positioning stopper levers are started to clamp. At this time, the plate is reset. Each workpiece is lowered to the plane of the pallet, and the plane of the pallet is 10mm away from the bottom surface of the plate. The pallet is lowered by one workpiece height. Repeat the above until the pallet stacking reaches the set requirements ^[2]

Dedicated to the complete set of equipment for automatic loading and stacking of bagged cement, making the existing cement loading unattended operation, replacing the manual stacking operation in the compartment, avoiding the occurrence of occupational diseases such as pneumoconiosis, and putting the harsh environment The manual operation is transformed into automatic operation of the machine, which has played a key role in improving working conditions for enterprises, reducing personal physical labor, reducing staff and increasing efficiency, and is the preferred equipment for automatic loading of modern cement enterprises.

Stacker parameters

* Power: 380V, 50HZ, 10KW

* Air pressure: 6 kg / cm2

* Applicable range of pallet: L: 1600mm W: within 1600mm

* Stacking workpiece total height: within 1600mm

* Speed: 6 layers stacking every 2-5 minutes

The main control components, including programmable controllers, variable frequency speed controllers, proximity switches, push-button switches and terminal blocks, are all made of first-class products, ensuring the reliability and long life of the system hardware. The combination of high-quality hardware and specialized control software designed by experts achieves a high degree of automation of the system. The perfect safety interlocking mechanism can provide protection for equipment and operators. The graphic display touch screen makes the palletizer easy to operate, easy to diagnose and easy to repair and maintain.

Robot palletizer can be integrated in any production line, providing intelligent, robotized, and networked production sites, palletizing logistics for a variety of operations in the beer, beverage and food industries, widely used in cartons, plastic boxes, bottles Products, bags, drums, film packages and filling products. Supporting three-in-one filling line, etc., palletizing all kinds of bottles, cans and bags. The automatic operation of the palletizer is divided into steps such as automatic box feeding, rotary box, sorting, stacking, stacking, lifting, loading, loading, lowering, and stacking ^[2]

1. Enter the box at a low position, occupy less space and have large production capacity;

2. PLC control of the whole machine, fully automatic operation;

3. Adapt to multiple stack types and bottle types, easy to adjust;

4. Multiple security protections, with touch screen control;

5. Using high-quality conveyor chain segmented transmission, the output section can be arbitrarily lengthened;

6. The motor and cylinder transmission and control are all imported brand-name components;

7. Try to use 304 material, the whole machine is beautiful and generous;

8. It is especially suitable for products packed with heat shrinkable film.

power:	380V, 50HZ, 10KW
Pressure:	6 kg / cm2
Scope of pallets:	L: 1600mm W: Within 1600mm
Stacking workpiece total height:	Within 1600mm
speed:	Complete 6 layers of stacking every 2-5 minutes

Special circumstances can be customized according to user requirements.

For random pallets, palletizing robots are the only option. Nonetheless, robot loading also faces many problems, and it will be more difficult if it is to be produced at a higher speed. A robotic palletizer that handles random loading requires special software. Through the software, the robotic palletizer is connected to other parts of the production line, which is a huge improvement.

A robot used to build random pallets can be integrated into the factory's warehouse management system (WMS). Ideally, it will be the front end of WMS, working in coordination with warehouse software to produce mixed pallets.

Sophisticated software can also meet the demand for ready-to-stock pallets. Generally speaking, this means that after the products are palletized, the labels of some or all of the packaging containers must be facing outwards. Robotic palletizing equipment is another option for demanding applications: palletizing in refrigerated warehouses. In the field of consumer goods packaging, handling boxes in a freezer warehouse is one of the most difficult jobs. Workers have to frequently work alternately to keep their bodies warm, which indirectly reduces work efficiency and increases labor costs.

In a frozen environment, automated random access palletizers are not the right choice, because most automated random access palletizers use compressed air tubes that freeze in cold storage. Compared with the automatic palletizer, the size of the palletizing robot is more compact. This is particularly important because the space in the refrigerated warehouse is very valuable. However, there are some problems with the application of robots in frozen warehouses.

When using palletizing robots, another important thing to consider is how the robots grasp a product. Vacuum grippers are the most common robotic arm-end tool (EOAT). Relatively speaking, they are cheap, easy to handle, and can efficiently load most loads. However, in some specific applications, the vacuum gripper also encounters problems, such as a porous substrate on the surface, a flexible package with a liquid content, or a package with an uneven surface.

Other EOAT options include a flip-type gripper, which can clamp both sides of a bag or other packaging form; a fork-type gripper, which is inserted into the bottom of the package to lift the package; and a bag-type gripper, which is a flip cover It is a hybrid of fork-type and fork-type grippers, whose fork part can wrap the bottom and sides of the package.

Other combinations of basic EOAT types are possible. A beverage packer encountered difficulties when palletizing filled and shrink-wrapped corrugated trays. A vacuum suction cup would tear the film off the tray. ^[1]

The palletizing machine adopts variable frequency motor, variable frequency speed regulation, and computer control to ensure smooth, smooth and reliable transportation; international advanced automatic control technology, mechatronics technology, network technology, and computer control fully automatic operation. Automatic stacking of reciprocating cycles meets the set requirements . The principle of the code box machine is a layer of workpieces that meet the requirements of the pallet.

Simply put, the palletizing robot should belong to a type of palletizing machine.

However, compared with ordinary palletizers, there are some obvious differences between the two.

The ordinary palletizer mainly adopts a series of actions such as pallet side pushing and some square workers to perform palletizing and conveying. And the robot palletizer mainly relies on the manipulator on the equipment for palletizing, which is the robot on the equipment that makes the palletizing robot much better than the palletizer.

Compared to ordinary palletizers, palletizing robots have some unique advantages. Palletizing robots are more flexible, especially with higher product adaptability, and they can be palletized more widely and efficiently. In particular, some automated production lines require palletizing robots.

Of course, some industrial packaging industries, logistics and warehousing industries, as well as various industrial production industries, need to use palletizers. Because palletizers are relatively stupid and inefficient, they will be replaced by palletizing robots. The palletizing efficiency of the enterprise can also reduce the palletizing cost of the enterprise.

In fact, both palletizing robots and ordinary palletizers can become effective assistants on the production line of enterprise palletizers. Not only improves the palletizing efficiency of the enterprise, but also improves the production and sales efficiency of the enterprise. It also has a direct impact on the improvement of production efficiency of enterprises.

However, if we compare the palletizing machine and the palletizing robot, the palletizing robot will definitely provide the production efficiency of the enterprise. With the continuous development of the palletizing robot, more and more enterprises will choose to use the palletizing robot in the future.

Both palletizing robots and palletizing machines have made important contributions to our production ^[3] .