IPallet - Cobot Palletiser

Benefits of our IPallet palletiser robots include safety, footprint and mobility, which sets this system apart.

The collaborative robot (cobot) comes with a user friendly HMI that does not need programming by the operator. The software will store the various box orientations, box sizes, number of layers and rows, it only requires the operator to select the set up they need. A new App allows for easy programming to create a new layout.

It is critical that safety be at the forefront of the design and build, especially when palletising system can come without the need for guarding/cages.
It is important to understand that a force limited collaborative robot on it’s own is not sufficient to meet the requirements of EN ISO 10218, the harmonised safety standard used to achieve CE conformity for robotic applications. Even though the robot itself has a CE mark of conformity, this is merely an indication that the equipment is CE certified as a component part and not a complete system. An OEM such as ourselves have a responsibility to make sure the complete machine is designed and built to not only perform the required function, but that it does so safely within the scope of the machinery directive as a CE compliant machine. As such, additional safety features are generally required as a means to ensure the machine is fully compliant.


Versatility

Whilst some processes will be very simple, for example; one sized box to be picked and placed onto one sized pallet. There will be many operations that will require picking a number of different sized boxes and placing them on different pallets.

The latter process will require the Palletiser to have a vision system fitted that can identify the box for it to be picked and placed on the correct pallet. Identification of the box can come from reading a barcode among other methods of recognition.