Olympus Technologies' 2-station UR palletising system is capable of acheiving up to 11 cycles, or 200kg of product, per minute. The UR20 robot is mounted centrally on a fixed column stand, providing sufficient reach to pick cases from a conveyor and placing on 2 pallets (up to 1.2m x 1.0m) in each side of the cell.
The maximum height of pallet depends on product specific dimensions and pallet layouts but typically heights up to 2.1m from the floor can be achieved. Operating the palletiser is as simple as loading a program on the robot and pressing play.
The operator uses a two-button sequence to set the light guards to allow full speed motion and uses green buttons to inform the system that a pallet is in place available to be populated with product.
New product configurations for the palletiser are created using Olympus’ easy-to-use offline pallet configurator. This allows new products to be added to the system with minimal downtime. To achieve the best cycle time the robot is capable of moving at speed at head height; as such some additional safety is required.
For our standard cell Olympus uses a combination of fixed guarding and light guard entry at the front to offer customers the smallest footprint on a UKCA marked safe palletising cell, whilst maintaining easy access and cost effectiveness.