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Curing ovens are loaded and unloaded automatically with a 4-axial palletizing system. The system picks up workpiece carriers from a supply point and loads up to seven curing ovens with several levels with them. After the curing time has passed, the system unloads the ovens again and makes the workpiece carriers available for further processing.

KP Foods Plant at Stockton-on-Tees is a manufacturer of Potato Crisp snack foods. The end of line process involved a manual Palletising process of the boxes of Crisps. This needed a high number of personnel over 3 shifts operating 24/7.
KP wanted to significantly reduce the labour content and re-deploy labour on to higher value added processes, reduce the floor space needed to perform the Palletising process and improve reliability of throughput. The output of the Read more ...

To set up a new state-of-the art production plant after the old one was destroyed by fire. After the sales items are packed in cardboard boxes, they must be conveyed, palleted and stored.

A major manufacturer of ice cream cones was planning a plant expansion, including the addition of a large warehouse space and wished to centrally build homogeneous pallets of products received at random from multiple production line ovens in this new space.

They had 8 manual palletizing points throughout the plant located near the main cone production and packaging areas and wanted to automatically feed all cased products from those multiple areas via conveyor to Read more ...