How Can You Get Benefits by Automating Your Depalletizing Operation?
Depalletizing operation can be considered just the opposite of a palletizer operation. This process is related to removing products or cases from a pallet by a certain automated operation and then putting them onto a conveyor system so that they can be moved elsewhere in your packaging process.
Depalletizing also refers to the operation of unloading any bags or boxes out of a pallet.
Traditionally, it may involve the following set of physical activities:
- Heavy lifting
- Bending
- Stretching repetitively
This kind of physical exertion may prove to be quite dangerous if the package happens to be over 25 kilos. Top Industries can offer you a customised Depalletizer solution for your operation based on your requirements.
Things to consider while automating your depalletizing process
In essence, manual pickers don’t utilise the warehouse workspace to its potential. Strong depalletizer cells used in warehouses can effectively employ the allotted space, including the floor and vertical space.
Additionally, this can improve performance overall by allowing manual workers to concentrate on other jobs that offer value. Otherwise, the depalletizing station might suffer, for example, if 3 out of 6 personnel performed depalletizing procedures in addition to a variety of other tasks.
A robotic depalletizer, on the contrary, has a gripper for pick-and-place type of depalletizing operations and also 3D vision systems. Multiple cameras, vision software, and laser sensors are all components of 3D machine vision systems.
A state-of-the-art 3D vision system not only records the environment, but it also determines the coordinates of objects that are positioned randomly.
Robots can scan each product, identify their pick point, and then place the object on a certain conveyor belt thanks to this technology. After all, identifying unknown items positioned at various heights is a simple first step.
With the sophisticated robotic depalletizer cell, it is also possible to identify a box with tapes as a single object rather than six individual boxes.
The installation of reliable vision software completes the smooth integration of software and hardware for a robotic depalletizing cell. Robots can select heavy objects from a random stack with more precision thanks to the vision software.
Vision Technology for Automatic Depalletization
Due to AI vision technology as well as machine learning algorithms, now robots can unload overlapping items or shiny products with ease.
A robotic depalletizer can manage a constant flow of mixed stock keeping unit pallets in any order thanks to this sophisticated vision software. The item on the pallet can be quickly identified, the variances can be seen, and the variations may be managed appropriately.
Robots can move faster in difficult settings thanks to cutting-edge vision software that classifies, segments, and offers over 100 grab poses based on trained neural networks. In general, it reduces frequent manual handling errors while also maintaining a steady throughput rate.
Automated robotic depalletizing increases productivity, lowers operating costs, and fosters a secure work environment, whether it be for mixed-SKU pallets or many pallets of the same SKU.
Despite this, warehouse employees are less likely to suffer from chronic illnesses, accidents, and other health problems.
The best part is that the business may profit from both human and also artificial cognitive intelligence.
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