Robot palletiser operates at 1,500 bags per hour

F Ball and Co, a UK manufacturer of flooring adhesives and floor preparation products for the contract flooring market, has installed a robot palletising system from Chronos Richardson.

Working closely with engineers from F Ball, the company devised a dual robot palletising scheme to meet specific operational requirements.

This involved supplying two robot palletising cells, which work in tandem and feed a single stretch hooding system.

The first robot palletiser is rated for operation at 450 bags/hour; while the second with multi bag pick-up is rated for operation at 1,500 bags/hour.

A full-pallet shuttle car transfers the full pallets through the packing room to the stretch hooding system.

As a special requirement the robots have been programmed to be part of the checkweighing system.

Whereby any underweight bags are removed from the packing line by the robot and transferred onto a small roller conveyor system, which is interlocked back to the palletising system and automatically shuts down when too many underweight bags are on the conveyor.

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