Automatic mixed pallets
When a major European chip and peanut producer experienced a rise in demand for mixed pallets from its customers, it turned to DAN-Palletiser for a solution.
Previously, four different boxes with chips were to be mixed onto the same pallet, a process that was performed manually, as it was impossible to find machinery which was able to restack the boxes.
DAN-Palletiser had already developed a fully automatic solution for depalletising of full pallets with many different products and repalletising of the products onto new pallets, eliminating manual labour. The system consists of a fully automatic depalletising system, including a fully automatic palletiser and a stretch wrapping machine.
Four pallets with four variations of chips that are to be mixed onto one pallet arrive at the de-palletising system. The depalletiser handles one layer at a time, lifting the upper layer 40-50mm, after which a ‘safety curtain’ is pushed underneath the layer. The layer is then placed on the curtain to provide a 100% reliability, thereby preventing the boxes from being dropped on their way to the sorting position.
From here the boxes are moved out onto the accumulating conveyors, and followingly to the palletiser. This procedure applies to all four variations.
