News: 20/10/2003

Garoll completes its plant automation systems with a new robotized palletizing line.

Garoll's aim to satisfy with its own technological innovation every peculiar demand referred to the sanitaryware ceramic production cycle, has been reached. The focus of a new automatic palletizing line allows Garoll to provide a resolute answer in a sector where repetitiveness and high operational costs are a synonim of reduced activity with inevitable increase in production costs.
The use of robots gives a significant versatility to the automatic palletizing line, a high precision grade for what it concerns all working phases and total freedom from manual operations.

The main palletizing line components are:
· Robot ABB IRB 6650 Foundry, with a 3-axis servo-controlled tool
· Track motion IRBT 6001
· Accident-prevention fences with fotoelectric barriers
· Transfer shuttle
· Emplacements
· Feeding conveyor
· Control board
· Sticker dispenser

This unit has been created to work completely automatic, and is supplied with a program unit used by the operator with which it transmits data via a TP screen.

The robot cycle is the following:
· Taking of the piece from a conveyor (such as wash basins, bidets, vases, columns, etc.), which was already codified by the operator once it has been put on the conveyor.
· Once the piece has been taken, the robot positions it under the sticker dispenser, and proceeds to attach all stickers on the piece.
· Right after, the robot deposits the piece on its relative coded bay.
· Once the relative pallet is full, the robot sends a code to the transfer shuttle that takes away from the line the full pallet.
· When a new piece comes to this free bay, the robot first takes a new pallet and positions it in the free bay area, then proceeds in taking the piece.
· When the robot positions the last piece on a pallet's layer, it takes a layer separator and deposits it on the just finished layer on the pallet.

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