Robotic Palletising Cells

A single cell typically runs up to 22 cases per minute, or up to 25 pallets per hour with automatic pallet handling. Bag duties reach up to 20 bags per minute with a double gripper. Multi-cell systems scale well beyond that from the same design language.

ABB primarily — the IRB 460 for high-speed carton and bag work, the IRB 660 for long reach and multi-station cells, and the IRB 760 for full-layer duties. We use arctic-specification robots for freezer rooms, and we’ll build to your site’s robot standard.

Yes. Twin-infeed cells where a single robot palletises from two carton feeds are a standard configuration, and a long-reach robot can service up to four infeeds, two pallet stacks, a slip-sheet stack and four outfeeds.

Australian/CHEP 1,165 × 1,165 is the default. We build cells handling Australian, ISO 1,200 × 1,000 and Euro 1,200 × 800 simultaneously, and cells running three pallet types in parallel with a dispenser and conveyor for each. Export sizes are also built.

Clamp for cartons, especially shelf-ready and heavily perforated board — no cups to wear out, no consumables, and far less risk of dropping a carton. Vacuum for single-box picks, full-layer picks and slip sheets. Combination heads give you clamp, vacuum and pallet hooks on one tool.

Yes, three ways: retractable pallet hooks on the gripper working from a magazine, an automatic pneumatic dispenser holding 10 to 30 pallets and refillable without stopping, or pallets placed on the floor at two load stations. Slip sheets are picked by retractable vacuum from a magazine.

Yes. Bag duties run up to 20 bags per minute using a double gripper that picks two bags per cycle. Bag grippers adjust from 185 to 500 mm bag width by hand wheel in under 30 seconds, with ultrasonic bag-presence sensing.

Yes. We build de-palletising cells for cartons, crates, bottles, cans and bags, including bespoke bag de-palletisers with head-mounted 3D vision that pick, pierce, cut, empty, shake and strip the bag in one cycle.

From the HMI. Patterns are recipe data, not code. We program and prove one pattern at Factory Acceptance Test and you build the rest on site — it’s designed to be done in house. If you’d rather we programmed all of them, we’ll scope it.

Yes, and it’s a standard configuration. We manufacture our own stretch wrappers, so palletiser and wrapper come from one supplier on one control platform, with interfaced E-stops and a single point of support.