Editorials
Application: Material Handling
QComp Palletizers' Optimised Design Offers Highest Efficiency Palletizer on the Market
POSTED: 06/22/2010
QComp Technologies, Inc. has one of the highest efficiency palletizers on the market. The company has years of experience in robotic applications, including; palletizing, picking, and case packing applications. Through these years of experience and the use of gained knowledge in gantry and multi-axis robotics QComp has designed, installed and
QComp Selected to Re-Engineer Major Personal Product Manufacturer's Palletizing System
POSTED: 06/22/2010
QComp Technologies received an order from a major personal products manufacturer to re-engineer an existing palletizing cell. The robotic palletizing cell was completely evaluated and re-engineered by QComp Technologies to increase throughput two fold. To achieve double the throughput the robotic cell required new pallet handling equipment, slipsheet placing
Look to RIA for a Revitalized Robotics Industry
POSTED: 02/03/2010
There is no sugar coating the fact that the robotics industry suffered from the Great Recession but there are some bright spots. RIA’s Director of Market Analysis, Paul Kellett, presented detailed statistics during the Robotics Industry Forum and they show the industry has contracted. However, he also highlighted areas where
KUKA RoboCoaster is Sum of All Thrills at Disney’s Epcot
POSTED: 10/19/2009
Until recently, few people could boast they had strapped themselves to a robot and gone for a ride (although quite a few did this at 2005 International Robots & Vision Show when KUKA brought an early version of their RoboCoaster). Now you can go
The Full Spectrum of Vacuum Gripping Systems
POSTED: 06/29/2009
It was once held that mechanical, electromechanical, pneumatic and vacuum-operated gripping systems would only ever be as reliable as the product being gripped allows. This thesis has been proven incorrect by vacuum specialist Schmalz, with its comprehensive range of gripping systems that can reliably handle the most varied of materials,
Mixed Load Palletizing: Supply Chain Economics
POSTED: 12/01/2005
Mixed Load Palletizing: Supply Chain Economics With manufacturing becoming more competitive, the best way for companies to remain viable is by identifying and embracing sustainable technologies that reduce costs and streamline the supply chain. As manufacturers change how they produce and distribute their products, mixedload pallet building emerges as
Bag Palletizing: A Design Guide
POSTED: 12/01/2005
Bag Palletizing: A Design Guide When designing your bag palletizing operations you need to ask yourself two vitally important questions. First, what type of bag am I palletizing? Is the bag smooth, porous, flat, round? Second, how is the product in the bag packed? Is it loose or firm?
Arctic Robot Design Guidelines
POSTED: 12/01/2005
Arctic Robot Design Guidelines Quick – think about an inhospitable environment where a robot should be deployed, an application that saps productivity, challenges workers, increases injuries, and increases costs. Most manufacturing professionals would think of die casting, forging, welding, grinding, painting – applications that are typically hot, dirty, noisy,
