PLC-controlled robotic palletizer

Oct 20, 2011

A ControlLogix PLC provides increased reliability and pattern-forming capability in a hybrid palletizer technology known as R-Factor. Marries robotics and conventional palletizing and is available with any of the company's floor-level or high-level palletizers. Works with challenging package types and positions cases upright just prior to layer formation.

Columbia Machine, Inc.

Columbia Machine, Inc.

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