Palletizing of dairy products - KUKA Robot KR 180 PA

TINE Meieriet Øst decided to introduce greater automation in order to achieve a significant increase in palletizing capacity. The company, a subsidiary of TINE BA, Norways largest producer of dairy products, thus wanted to move away from manual palletizing downstream of a TetraPak filling machine. In addition to this, older systems were also earmarked for replacement. Another reason for greater automation was the lack of space available. The solution considered was jointed-arm robots with short cycle times, long reach, repeatability, flexibility, high payload capacity and gentle handling. (R 258)