Ranked among the leading mission-critical components, palletizers and depalletizers must incorporate safety, flexibility, speed and performance in order to keep operations humming along, experts say.
Shorter runs with more changeovers, less packaging and less protection for the product like shrink bundle with no corrugate tray or pad, and no dividers in glass bottle cases are among the trends impacting palletizing and depalletizing equipment, notes Ted Yeigh, sales director for Columbia Machine Inc., Vancouver, Wash.