The Material Handling Blog

Does your facility have labor intensive, ergonomically challenging or repetitive operations that involve breaking down a pallet load? If so, robotic depalletizing could be a solution to help eliminate ergonomic strain, lower operating costs and allow for the reallocation of labor to other tasks within your facility.

Manually unloading pallets is a time-intensive, repetitive process that can lead to physical strains for operators and job dissatisfaction. Moreso, unintentional human errors can result in miscounts, misplacement and bottlenecks. The process of removing product from a pallet can be automated through the use of industrial robotics, in a process is called robotic depalletizing.

Palletizing and depalletizing with collaborative robots just made a huge step forward. These easy-to-integrate solutions can handle a range of product sizes and styles while eliminating the need for safety fencing and requiring minimal floor space.