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FANUC America Authorized System Integrator Currie by Brenton® offers innovative robotic palletizing solutions and excels in developing specialized tools for maximum flexibility and productivity.

This multiline robotic palletizing system from Currie By Brenton® includes four production lines that are palletized by three FANUC Palletizing Robots in two separate robot cells. In this, the first of the two cells, a FANUC M410iB palletizing robot is used to palletize from two of the four production lines. Cases are fed to the palletizing area on a shared interconnect conveyor, and a case diverter separates products to two case infeed conveyors. The robot picks a tworow matrix of cases, utilizing multizone vacuum tooling. Robots in the system place the cases to the pallet in the appropriate location for the product being run. Once a pallet is complete, it is coveyed away from the palletizing station to the fork truck pick station at the end of the conveyor. Then the robot moves to pick an empty pallet and tier sheet for replacement and the cycles repeat.

In the system’s second robotic work cell, two robots palletize products of different sizes. First, as in the first work cell, a FANUC M410iB palletizing robot is responsible for handling of pallets and sheets for the two pallet stations, and for palletizing products in a tworow matrix with its vacuum gripper. In the second palletizing station, a FANUC R1000iA/80H robot utilizes vacuum venturii tooling for case handling and palletizing. Cases are fed into this cell on a shared interconnect conveyor with case sortation.

Each robot cell in the system includes case decline conveyors, case sortation, case accumulation, case metering, pick conveyors, vacuum end of arm tools, pallet and sheet racks, threestrand drag chain conveyor for load handling, case bypass conveyors for manual palletizing capability, perimeter guard package, necessary controls, and finally FANUC’s industryleading palletizing robots.

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