The three P's of material handling robotics

There are many dif­fer­ent func­tions that mate­r­i­al-han­dling robots can per­form, but three of the most com­mon are pal­letiz­ing, pack­ag­ing, and part trans­fer. Many mate­r­i­al han­dling func­tions are tedious, dull, and time-con­sum­ing for human work­ers. Sev­er­al of them, includ­ing pal­letiz­ing and part trans­fer, which may require heavy lift­ing, can also be injury-induc­ing. These appli­ca­tions, once sole­ly per­formed by humans, are now being auto­mat­ed with mate­r­i­al han­dling robot­ic sys­tems to increase pro­duc­tion speed and safe­ty lev­els while dri­ving down com­pa­ny costs.

Pal­letiz­ing:

Man­u­fac­tur­ing, food pro­cess­ing, and ship­ping indus­tries need pal­letiz­ing robots to effec­tive­ly move their prod­ucts off the line and out to con­sumers. Pal­letiz­ing robots can move a case in one minute or less, which cuts time in half, while also stack­ing cas­es six lay­ers high, some­thing human work­ers are unable to do at such a quick pace. This is just one of the many exam­ples of why man­u­fac­tur­ers are switch­ing from man­u­al appli­ca­tions to mate­r­i­al han­dling robots.

Pack­ag­ing:

Indus­tries flock to pack­ag­ing robots because of the tech­nol­o­gy avail­able to han­dle qual­i­ty con­trol. These mate­r­i­al han­dling robot­ic sys­tems can make sure that orders are pack­aged cor­rect­ly, with few­er errors, and at a faster pace, sav­ing the man­u­fac­tur­er money.

Part trans­fer:

When fac­to­ries need to move parts from one con­vey­or or one table to anoth­er, they look toward a part trans­fer robot to meet their pro­duc­tion needs. A part trans­fer robot has the accu­ra­cy and pre­ci­sion that a human work­er will not have, and parts can be moved faster and eas­i­er with this auto­mat­ed mate­r­i­al han­dling system.

The three P’s are just a few of the mate­r­i­al han­dling appli­ca­tions that Robots​.com works with dai­ly. All refur­bished robots under­go a rig­or­ous recon­di­tion­ing process to restore.

For more infor­ma­tion on mate­r­i­al han­dling automa­tion, con­tact Robots​.com rep­re­sen­ta­tives online or at 877−762−6881.