Flour power palletising
December 1st 2007 Allinson (Silverspoon), part
of Associated British Foods,
along with its consultants,
Lorien Engineering, chose
Greenstone Conveyor
Systems (GCS) to provide
them with a fully automatic,
end of the line robotic
palletising system. The
system collects bagged flour
from four packaging
machines, queue them on
accumulating conveyors,
prior to palletising, by twin
Fanuc pick and place robots.
Pallets are fed into the
system from a pallet
dispenser, via a space saving
trolley car system that feeds
them under the outfeed bag
accumulating conveyors.
Fully loaded pallets are
automatically transferred via
pallet conveyor to a pallet
stretch wrapping machine.
Once stretch wrapped, the
pallets are off-loaded by FLT
and removed for storage. As
bags of flour can vary in
height, the robot's gripper is
fitted with a sensing
mechanism which
automatically adjusts the
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