Palletizer
Accuweigh’s Budpak branch recently commissioned a palletizer fitted with a special gripper for simultaneously handling both bag-in-box cartons and drums of vegetable oils at Cargill’s processing plant in Newcastle.
There are two pick-up conveyors feeding the robot palletizer; one each for delivering filled drums or filled cartons to the pick up points. Fuji palletizes automatically alter the special gripper to pick up either a drum or a carton, depending on what container type arrives at either of the pickup points first. The robot palletizer also automatically inserts slip sheets between layers of product as required.
Up to five empty pallets are positioned on either side of the palletizer which automatically stacks the containers onto the appropriate pallet. As a pallet is fully loaded, the robot palletizer continues stacking the alternate container type while the completed pallet is automatically removed and replaced with an empty pallet. The palletizer then automatically resumes simultaneous palletizing of both container types.
The Fuji-Ace EC-201 robot palletizes have a control panel incorporating a multi-function user-friendly touch screen display, hand held ‘teaching box’ for ease of programming, energy conserving servo motors, and heavy duty support base.
Accuweigh/Budpak is Australia’s largest weigh packaging company with branches in all mainland states. Budpak has hundreds of bagging, filling, stretch wrapping and palletizes throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific.