Robotic Palletizing of Bottles
Customer Requirements & Project Information
The customer required a delivery system that could handle four bottle types in multiple sizes, stack trays, slip sheets, and could stack the bottles in specified configurations to accommodate the crating requirements.
MESH designed and built a customized all-in-one end-of-arm tool to handle all of these parts and items without the need for a tool change function.
THREE HANDLING AND PALLETIZING PROCESSES WITH ONE MULTIFUNCTION END OF ARM TOOL
Robot Features
- FANUC robot with 45 kg payload and 2606mm reach
- MESH Customized end of arm tool was constructed with lightweight aluminum
- Vacuum grippers to grip slips sheets and trays and for picking multiple bottles
- Cycle Rate of 3 to 4 seconds depending on bottle type
Robotic Picking, Placing, Stacking Series Order
- Picking a stack tray and placing it onto the waiting pallet
- Gripping up to 8 bottles at once and placing them on the stack tray in the specified configuration
- Picking a slip sheet or stack tray and placing it on top of the row of bottles
- Maximum stack height = 9 layers of bottles up to 108" tall
