Palletizing

Optimize your end-of-line operations and increase productivity with collaborative robotic palletizing solutions. Perform repetitive tasks with consistency and accuracy, regardless of variations in products.

Start an efficiency revolution with palletizing robots

Palletizing is an end-of-line task performed in almost all production facilities and is crucial for optimizing storage, material accessibility, and the final link between warehouse and end customers. Yet, it can quickly become a bottleneck.

There's a ramping labor shortage in the manufacturing industry. People don't want to perform such strenuous tasks, and workers face high injury risks, which can lead to prolonged absences. Subpar pallets, damaged packaging, and unstable loads can compromise the integrity of products during storage and transit, leading to costly losses. Hiring and packaging costs are increasing daily. That's where collaborative robotic palletizing comes in.

Collaborative robots (cobots) are not only reliable but also highly adaptable; they can be reprogrammed on the go to shift seamlessly between different palletizing tasks, increasing flexibility and reducing downtime. They can work hours without breaks, which means you can significantly increase your production output and get your products to the market faster. Robotic palletizing can also be a safer option for your workers. With cobots handling the heavy lifting and stacking, there is less risk of injury or strain on your employees.

Palletizing cobots in action

Scale efficiently

Discover how Raumland GmbH, a family-owned wine bottling company, streamlined its end-of-line palletizing process with the UR20 cobot. By automating the heavy lifting, Raumland increased efficiency, reduced employee strain, and adapted seamlessly to diverse packaging needs.

Increase productivity

Learn how Rivimetal, a manufacturer of aluminum car parts, increased productivity by up to 82% using UR10 cobots for grinding and palletizing. By automating repetitive tasks, Rivimetal freed skilled workers, boosted production capacity, and achieved a return on investment in just 12 months.

Free up employees

At Irish dairy cooperative Ornua, the significant challenge of manual palletizing—a labor-intensive task that required constant bending, reaching, and lifting heavy dairy products—was effectively addressed by the UR20 cobot from Universal Robots. Coupled with Robotiq’s user-friendly PE20 palletizing solution, the cobot introduced a financially efficient and safe system, significantly increasing productivity and safety without the need to isolate human workers.

Secure loads and perfect balance

Palletizing often requires a combination of high precision and significant physical strength, which is difficult for humans, especially due to the repetitive nature of the task. This challenge intensifies when the goods to be stacked vary in size and shape. Cobots consistently perform repetitive stacking tasks with accuracy. When it comes to handling variations in products, they can also be quickly reprogrammed to meet changing requirements.

Palletizing Learning Path

Try our step-by-step guide and learn more about how to automate your palletizing process using cobots.

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Complete your cobot

Our collaborative, industrial robots require add-ons to reach their full potential. This worlds of additional products in an entire ecosystem on its own. We at Universal Robots take the high pride in our ecosystem, which is called UR+.

Application kits

Application kits are useful for those who can install their own solution but are looking for a compatible set of end-effectors, software and other accessories

Components

Components are single products that can be combined with our UR robot to create an entire solution. This includes items such end-effectors, 7th axis, software or teach pendants.

Solutions

Palletizing solutions are flexible and easy to integrate and typically allow for variation in choice of gripper, number of pallets and integration of an optional lifting column for extra palletizing height.

Tried. Tested. Trusted.

Universal Robots has deployed over 90,000 cobots into every manufacturing industry. Companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 giants to local contract machine shops, are leveraging our 6th generation cobots to increase productivity and quality and improve job satisfaction for their manufacturing teams.

Flexible

UR cobots meet the demands for flexibility head-on with industry-leading ease-of-use, intuitive programming, and a powerful back-end for OEMs and developers to add value and meet specific needs. UR cobot-based systems generate ROI that is usually measured in months, not years.

Worker-safe, worker-friendly

Universal Robots has developed the most complete set of safety tools and functions in the industry. Our safety protocols can be configured to meet the varied safety requirements of your plant or facilities and your application risk assessment, letting your manufacturing team work safely side-by-side with UR cobots.

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