Unilever Bestfoods approached Linkx to provide automatic palletizing for random packs of cook-in sauces from three adjacent product lines.

For this application, Linkx reused an existing robot that Unilever no longer needed to devise a compact system that is designed to do the work of three conventional palletisers.

Linkx implemented the palletizing system in conjunction with Alpha Chase Engineering, a specialist supplier of conveying systems.

Key benefits of product application

• The new palletizer deploys an industrial robot that picks up packs in random sequence from any of three production lines and accurately places each pack on the appropriate pallet.
• The robot’s flexibility enables it to cope with the variety of pack sizes and pallet patterns required at the plant.
• According to Jon Skinner from Unilever Bestfoods, the installation and commissioning of the robot palletizer went very smoothly and the system is now fully operational.
• He added that it is proving to be very efficient and reliable and is providing the company with significant cost savings.
• The palletizer produces pallets with completely consistent product stacking, which makes them easier to handle in the automated warehouse, said Skinner.

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