Robot palletising by Chronos and F. Ball

Working closely with engineers from F. Ball, Chronos Richardson has devised an innovative dual robot palletising scheme to meet their specific operational requirements.

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Ball and Co from Leek, Staffordshire is the UK's leading manufacturer of flooring adhesives and floor preparation products for the contract flooring market and they recently sought out Chronos Richardson's expertise in robot palletising.

This involved supplying two robot palletising cells, which work in tandem and feed a single stretch hooding system.

The first robot palletiser is rated for operation at 450 bags/hour; whilst the second with multi bag pick-up is rated for operation at 1500 bags/hour.

A full pallet shuttle car transfers the full pallets through the packing room to the stretch hooding system.

As a special requirement the robots have been programmed to be part of the check-weighing system.

Whereby any under-weight bags are removed from the packing line by the robot and transferred onto a small roller conveyor system, which is interlocked back to the palletising system and automatically shuts down when too many under-weight bags are on the conveyor.

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