Integrating a pallet spacer on your palletiser: a few ideas to avoid breakage!
Just like building a tower, a builder doesn’t start with the roof, or even the foundations, but with a plan. Before integrating a non-slip layer pad into your palletising line, you need to start by drawing up a plan.Stabilising a product, from production to the point of final consumption, remains a challenge for many companies.
If we’ve already convinced you that the anti-slip palletising layer pad is the fast, economical and environmentally-friendly solution to your needs, you still have a challenge to meet: making sure that its implementation on your palletising lines doesn’t end in failure!
Here are a few things to think about:
STEP No. 1: DEFINE THE QUALITY, GRAMMING AND DIMENSION OF YOUR INTERPLAYERThereare several types of non-slip layer pad: paper, solid board, corrugated board, plastic film, etc. Each material is available in a number of different qualities. Each material comes in a range of grammages, chosen for their strength, flexibility or the rigidity required to stabilise a pallet. The format of the insert must correspond to requirements.
For example, when placed at the foot of a pallet, it should be the same size as or wider than the pallet to provide protection. When placed as a layer divider, the format will be smaller or identical to the surface area occupied by the products so as not to be visible or perforate the palletising film.
Before moving on to the next stage, test the solution in manual mode. There’s no point wearing out your machines and tiring your employees if there’s no hope of a winning result.
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STEP 2: IMPLEMENTATION ON THE PALLETISING LINE
â–º Define an ideal location for your stack of divider formats.
It’s important to take into account your environmental constraints: hygiene, temperature (hot, cold or extreme cold), humidity (dry, damp, wet). Next, you need to check whether the space near the palletiser will be large enough to accommodate a pallet.
There are several types of format shop: some are integrated into the floor or raised above it. Others allow a new pallet of formats to be placed directly, either by a pallet truck or automatically conveyed to a location.
Remember to anticipate the ease of access for replenishing consumables and turn your project into a tool for optimising your internal flows.
â–º Picking up and dropping off the interleaving format.
The next step in integrating non-slip interleaves is picking up and dropping the interleave format onto your pallet. There are different types of gripping system that you can adjust according to your needs, such as gripper or vacuum gripping.
For suction gripping systems, work on the quality of the suction cups, taking into account their size, their position on the gripper, the suction, but also the operating speed and the gripper.
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STEP 3: ORGANISE A TEST PROGRAMME
The experts at our technical centre are here to help you anticipate future adjustments to your palletising line. Thanks to our palletising test unit, which is capable of reproducing your constraints, together we can draw up a list of recommendations that will enable you to shorten your lead times and reduce the costs involved in implementing your project.
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