Palletizing with collaborative robots
Optimize your end‑of‑line operations and increase productivity with collaborative palletizing robot solutions. Perform repetitive stacking tasks with consistency and accuracy, even when product sizes or packaging vary.
Start an efficiency revolution with palletizing robots
Palletizing is an end-of-line task performed in almost all production facilities and is crucial for optimizing storage, material accessibility, and the final link between warehouse and end customers. Yet, it can quickly become a bottleneck.
There’s a ramping labor shortage in the manufacturing industry. People don’t want to perform such strenuous tasks, and workers face high injury risks, which can lead to prolonged absences. Subpar pallets, damaged packaging, and unstable loads can compromise the integrity of products during storage and transit, leading to costly losses. Hiring and packaging costs are increasing daily. That’s where collaborative robotic palletizing comes in.
Collaborative robots (cobots) provide a reliable, adaptable, and safe approach to palletizing. A cobot palletizer can be reprogrammed on the go to accommodate different patterns, product types, or pallet configurations, minimizing downtime. Cobots work continuously without fatigue, enabling substantial increases in throughput and helping manufacturers bring products to market faster. With the heavy lifting handled by robotic palletizing, employees face fewer injury risks and can be redeployed to higher‑value tasks.
Palletizing cobots in action
Increase productivity
Learn how Rivimetal, a manufacturer of aluminum car parts, increased productivity by up to 82% using UR10 cobots for grinding and palletizing. By automating repetitive tasks, Rivimetal freed skilled workers, boosted production capacity, and achieved a return on investment in just 12 months.
Scale efficiently
Discover how Raumland GmbH, a family-owned wine bottling company, streamlined its end-of-line palletizing process with the UR20 cobot. By automating the heavy lifting, Raumland increased efficiency, reduced employee strain, and adapted seamlessly to diverse packaging needs.
Free up employees
At Irish dairy cooperative Ornua, the significant challenge of manual palletizing—a labor-intensive task that required constant bending, reaching, and lifting heavy dairy products—was effectively addressed by the UR20 cobot from Universal Robots. Coupled with Robotiq’s user-friendly PE20 palletizing solution, the cobot introduced a financially efficient and safe system, significantly increasing productivity and safety without the need to isolate human workers.
Secure loads and perfect balance
Effective palletizing requires both precision and physical strength, especially when products vary in size and shape. Robotic palletizing excels in these conditions. Cobots maintain consistent stacking accuracy and can be quickly reprogrammed to support new product lines or changing packaging demands, ensuring stable, secure pallets every time.
Complete your cobot
Our industrial collaborative robots reach their full potential through a strong ecosystem of add‑on products, and at Universal Robots we take great pride in this ecosystem, known as UR Marketplace.
Application kits
Application kits are useful for those who can install their own solution but are looking for a compatible set of end-effectors, software and other accessories
Components
Components are single products that can be combined with our UR robot to create an entire solution. This includes items such end-effectors, 7th axis, software or teach pendants.
Solutions
Palletizing solutions are flexible and easy to integrate and typically allow for variation in choice of gripper, number of pallets and integration of an optional lifting column for extra palletizing height.
Why Universal Robots?
Tried. Tested. Trusted.
Universal Robots has deployed over 100,000 cobots into every manufacturing industry. Companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 giants to local contract machine shops, are leveraging our 6th generation cobots to increase productivity and quality and improve job satisfaction for their manufacturing teams.
Flexible
UR cobots meet the demands for flexibility head-on with industry-leading ease-of-use, intuitive programming, and a powerful back-end for OEMs and developers to add value and meet specific needs. UR cobot-based systems generate ROI that is usually measured in months, not years.
Worker-safe, worker-friendly
Universal Robots has developed the most complete set of safety tools and functions in the industry. Our safety protocols can be configured to meet the varied safety requirements of your plant or facilities and your application risk assessment, letting your manufacturing team work safely side-by-side with UR cobots.
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