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Transfer, buffering and palletising across fulfilment floors, sized against the rate the slowest station can hold rather than the fastest.
Transfer, buffering and palletising across fulfilment floors, sized against the rate the slowest station can hold rather than the fastest.
Cases arrive at the rate the upstream line sets and leave in the pattern the truck sets. Between those two the station picks, orients and stacks, and holds work when the next station stops.
Volume here is measured across a shift, not per cycle. A station that is quick but starves the palletiser behind it has not helped anybody.
The case does. Weight and stiffness decide whether the tool is a vacuum head or a clamp, and how many cases it lifts at once.
Pallet pattern and stack height set reach far more than payload does. We draw the reach envelope against your actual pallet, not against a catalogue diagram.
Where the floor is shared with pedestrian traffic, the safety assessment covers the aisle as well as the cell.
A transfer rail with buffering, a palletising cell, or both tied into the same safety circuit. Length and pitch are cut from the cycle times either side of the station.
Height and hand-off are surveyed against the conveyor you already run. Where it stays in service, our rail meets it rather than replacing it.
What engineers ask us whatever floor they run.
Can one supplier cover several of our plants?
Yes, and it usually costs less. The same tooling drawing runs at every site, and spares come from one part number rather than five.
Who writes the safety assessment?
We do, for the area the work alters rather than for the robot alone. It is written before the installation window opens and handed over with the drawings.
Do you visit the site before quoting?
For a station or a cell, yes. Fixing points, services and signal routes are surveyed before anything is cut, and the survey is not invoiced separately.
What happens if our part changes next year?
Contact faces are the part that changes. A new geometry usually means a new set of faces cut against it, not a new tool.
Can you work to our plant's own standard?
Tell us which standard the plant is audited to and the assessment is written against it. ISO 10218 is the baseline here, not the ceiling.
Do you work outside these five industries?
Yes. These five are where most of our work sits, but the question we ask is about the part and the rate, not the sector it belongs to.