Palletizing/depalletizing

New bagging line brings worker safety, more business

Corn ingredient co-op replaces a manual bagging process with a fully automated line, equipped with a bagger, robotic palletizer, and stretch hooder, to address operator safety issues and lost customers.

August 20, 2018

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Secondary Packaging

Better butter palletizing

California’s largest dairy co-op replaces manual palletizing with four robotic palletizers, each with the ability to handle four different case sizes and two pallet configurations at one time

August 20, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Simplified programming of new pallet configurations

A novel control solution let this OEM accelerate pallet layer configuration, eliminate manual input errors, and reduce time spent on debugging its entry-level robotic palletizer.

August 3, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Robots more vital than ever

As labor shortages continue to grow and the need for greater packaging flexibility and faster product turnaround intensify, packagers turn to robotics in record numbers.

July 28, 2018

Secondary Packaging

A robot-to-PLC Rosetta Stone

Think of it as an "easy button" for simplifying automation. That's how Dean Elkins, senior general manager of industrial robotics maker Yaskawa Motoman, describes the company's efforts to make it easier to integrate robots on the factory floor.

March 19, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Clever pallet layer formation

If pallet layer patterns can be automatically formed upstream from the palletizer, great efficiencies can be gained.

March 7, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Depalletizing beer cans

An overhead depalletizer is the first piece of equipment in a brand new canning line at this Grand Rapids, MI, craft brewer.

February 23, 2018

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

New line brings 750 cans/min capability to Michigan brewer

Operating for about a year now, the newest canning line at Founders Brewing Company is capable of producing 750 cans/min and features a cloud-based Warehouse Management System.

February 22, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Columbia Machine partners with OTTO Motors

As a Certified OTTO Motors Integration Partner, Columbia Machine is able to incorporate the OTTO 1500 Self Driving Vehicle (SDV) into current and future applications.

January 25, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Breakthrough in pallet-patterning software

As SKU proliferation continues to make flexibility and changeover increasingly important to CPG companies, a new pallet-pattern programming software is attracting a lot of attention.

January 12, 2018

Secondary Packaging

New major accounts manager at Columbia Machine, Inc.

Columbia Machine, Inc. welcomed Jeff Dooley to its Palletizer Team. Jeff accepted the position of Major Accounts Manager and is based out of Connecticut.

December 13, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Thiele to integrate Allen-Bradley control software on SYMACH palletizers

This innovation was designed with customers’ needs in mind.

September 22, 2017

Cartoning

Craft beer can line leverages robotics

Depalletizing of empty cans, formation of pallet layers, and lifting of formed layers onto pallets are all done robotically. Elsewhere in the plant, another robot depalletizes reshippers.

September 5, 2017