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A discount apparel retailer, for example, might receive in bulk and need to palletize on the inbound side to feed into reserve storage.

Arpac was among the very first to take advantage of a new robotic palletizing software from Motoman called PalletSolver that streamlines the palletizing process by generating ideal pallet patterns and enabling robots to palletize more variations quickly and efficiently.Thanks to its intuitive drag-and-drop features, PalletSolver makes it possible to quickly set robotic palletizing routines for virtually any mix of SKUs entering the Arbot-LT.

There are many ways to palletize, but high-level palletizing is one of the more common routes taken, Wells says.

Carlos Emilio Gonzalez, president of Cemex Dominican Republic, said once installed the new packing unit will pack and palletize 2.4 million tons of cement annually--increasing Cemex's capacity by more than 1.5 million additional bags monthly, or 800,000 tpy.

Product can also be easily diverted to a quality-control area prior to case packing," adding that Schneider case packers "have the ability to pack combo packs, including sleeved cups and/or lid combinations, as well as sort, count, orient, align, pack, close, label and palletize in highly efficient, cost-saving configurations that improve quality." www.schneiderequip.com.

"When we found that FKI Logistex offered us the ability to palletize both product lines with one piece of equipment, we looked into that option."

The Robotic Mini Pallet Cell is available in single and dual pallet configurations and can palletize up to 20-25 cases/min.

Robotic arm tooling can be equipped to simultaneously palletize multiple product types from up to three production lines, and place pallets and sheets.

Atlanta will palletize approximately 170,000 daily copies and 285,000 Sunday copies coming off its four tks press lines.

Overall, the new system (Beumer Group, beumergroup.com) is compact and uses less energy to automatically fill, palletize and depalletize bags.

The Minneapolis installation, which begins next month and is to commence operation in summer, will palletize 740,000 weekly comic packages produced by the paper on two Heidelberg NP630 inserters.