Palletizing Cell for Flour Bags

Company

This application was developed for a French company specialising in flour/seed production. To improve production throughput, the company asked JYGA to supply a robotic palletising cell.
The robotic palletiser must receive the bags, receive layer pads and stacks of pallets, palletise the bags and discharge full pallets.

Project & solution

To meet this requirement, JYGA recommended the installation of a single-line robotic palletiser.
The bags are sorted and manually placed on the inspection-station conveyor. They are then carried by an infeed and accumulation conveyor to a turning module according to the palletising pattern. They are subsequently transferred sideways onto a roller table for row preparation.

At the same time, stacks of empty pallets and layer-pad pallets are positioned by the operator between floor guides while the cell is stopped. The cell restarts automatically when the doors are closed, after operator validation.

A 6-axis robot is fitted with a gripper and vacuum cups to perform three types of pick: bags, pallets and layer pads.

The empty pallet is picked by the robot and placed on the stopped palletising conveyor. It is then re-centred laterally before the robot places the various bags and layer pads.

The full pallet is then transferred to a collection station outside the safety zone through the light curtain. An intermediate station can store a second full pallet before collection without stopping the cell.