Project
Food & beverage
Year
2025
Robotic palletising
End-of-line palletising automated across three packaging lines.
Headline result
−45%
Manual handling hours
Handling hours
220 h
121 h
−45%
Line stops
34 / wk
12 / wk
−65%
The challenge
Three packaging lines ended at manual palletising stations. Operators lifted every case by hand, and when a station fell behind, the whole line stopped.
What we did
We studied the case mix before choosing any robot, then wrote the specification and ran a neutral tender between three integrators.
One robotic cell now serves all three lines, with buffer conveyors so a short stop at the cell no longer stops packaging.
The result
Manual handling fell from 220 to 121 hours a week, and line stops from 34 to 12 a week. The operators who used to palletise by hand now run the cell.
Next step
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