“The introduction of a robotic palletizer has had a huge impact on our business,” say Product Manager Jason Covington and Business Development Manager Steve Golladay of ITW Warehouse Automation (ITWWA), Arden, N.C. “We now can handle a wider variety of cases more effectively; we are able to create more stable pallets, even as our customers have moved to more lightweight packaging.”
As packaging styles continue to develop, robotic palletizing solutions are agile enough to accommodate new package shapes and sizes, according to the ITWWA duo. Plus, the dynamic capabilities of such systems allow manufacturers to build multiple complex packages on the same pallets on the fly by accessing case-picking software through the human-machine interface, they say.