Palletizers & Automated Palletizing Equipment
Bastian offers two types of automated palletizing. The first type, robotic palletizing, is becoming more popular and more affordable. Likewise traditional, or conventional, palletizers are also widely used including: Bag palletizers, Case palletizers, and Gantry crane palletizers.
Bastian's engineers are experts in automating palletizing operations thru both robotic and conventional palletizer systems.
How Automated Palletizers Work
Both conventioal palletizers and robotic palletizers are used to automated the pallet building (palletizing) process in a warehouse, distribution, or manufacturing facility. Depending upon the palletizer many differnt technologies could be employed to help you make the perfect pallet. Pallets can be built using everything from platic belt conveyors with rollers that skew the product into place to customized end of arm tools for robots. Additiaonlly, new technlogies are emmerging to help you build pallets full of mixed cases or products such as bastian's robotic ASRS and mobile robots.
Automated Palletizer Benefits
- Increase speed in palletizing operations over all human operations
- Decrease in injury rates and fatigue to human operators
Conventional Palletizer Benefits
- Conventional palletizers provide palletizing automation at a lower cost on average than robotic palletizers.
- Conventional palletizers are faster than robotic palletizers in some applications.
Robotic Palletizer Benefits
- High capacity - typically 220 – 660 lb, robots are available with 1600 - 2200 lb payloads
- Robotic palletizers typically take up a smaller footprint, require less space, then conventional palletizers
Conventional Palletizers In Material Handling Systems
High level Infeed Bag Palletizers
High level infeed bag palletizers provide you with precise bag handling through a unique system of turning crosses and belt conveyors. This system allows for desired bag orientation through gentle row placement.
Low Level Case Palletizers
Low level case palletizers offer the forming of multiple rows at one time thus greatly increasing the speed of palletizing operations over manual palletizing.
Gantry Palletizers
Bastian's gantry palletizer provides automatic palletization of cases, bags, pails, and drums from one or more packaging lines. It is designed to position product containers on pallets or slip sheets prior to storage.
Conventional Bulk Depalletizers
Conventional bulk depalletizers formed layers of product by gently pushing from four sides of multi-position conforming plates.
Palletizing Conveyor Passive Layer Former
Activated Roller Belt technology can be used to simply and automatically create pallet layers that can be presented to a palletizing robot. The concept uses a combination of an actuated case turner, and a specially configured Activated Roller Belt conveyor that precisely arranges packages to create a pallet layer.
Robotic Palletizers In Material Handling Systems
Robotic Palletizers
Robotic palletizing provides you with highly customized solutions by implementing leading edge technologies. Palletizing robots can also handle pallets, slip sheets and tier sheets for completely automatic pallet building.
Robotic De-Palletizers
Robotic depalletizing can help you automate the sorting and arranging of products into the orientation required by upstream equipment while eliminating the ergonomic, safety and labor intensive issues associated with manual depalletizing.
Mixed Load Robotic Palletizing
Mixed load robotic palletizers help you stack multiple SKU’s on a pallet to maximize pallet density.
Dual Stage Robotic Palletizers
Dual Stage Robotic Palletizers help you automate the palletizing process when dealing with: unstable products, column stacked products that produce and unstable unit load, a large variety of unit load patterns that change frequently, large product variations, and high volume case rates.
Ancillary Palletizing Equipment
Pallet Conveyor
Bastian has several robust, reliable, high quality standard designs for pallet transport conveyor. Additionally, different custom configurations with numerous options can be manufactured to meet your specific needs.
Pallet Stackers & Dispensers
Pallet dispensers are an integral part of most palletizing systems insuring a pallet is always ready for a robotic palletizer or conventional palletizer to place products
Slip Sheet Dispenser (Gantry)
Automated slip sheet dispensers help you automate the placement of slip sheets within your palletizing operations.