Dancing robots at interpack with Trapo

At this year’s interpack, Trapo is letting the robots dance at stand A65 in hall 12: In a live performance, the system integrator from Gescher-Hochmoor in Westphalia, Germany, will demonstrate crate and carton handling.

At its 195 square metre exhibition stand in Düsseldorf, the medium-sized company is focusing on the handling of reusable crates and cartons weighing up to 35kg. Due to the synchronous interaction of two articulated-arm robots, use intelligent control to harmonise with conveyor technology and autonomous robot (AMR) for pallet handling.

The two articulated robots are specifically a cobot from the TCP series and a high-speed robot system from Trapo. While the cobot is equipped with a low-maintenance suction gripper, the actor from the powerful HRS series operates with a fork gripper. The two systems alternately palletise and depalletise the crates and boxes fed onto longitudinal and transverse pallets – a task that requires precision when stacking the crates precisely into one another. In the live application, the switching between full and empty pallets is handled by a flexible robot, which also acts autonomously and in the smallest of spaces.

Trapo’s automation concepts are consistently reliable and at the same time low-maintenance, but also rely on gripper technology. Trapo grippers are tailored to corresponding robots, specific characteristics of the objects and desired performance of the entire line.

From conveyor technology right through to AMR and robots, all line modules are connected via Trapo Intelligent Management. Acting as the ‘digital backbone’, this smart software tool coordinates processes, supports monitoring and records process data in real time. This makes key performance indicators for plant availability (OEE) visible, process statuses transparent and optimisation potential systematically accessible. Sensors and control logic ensure a regulated, efficient, economical and, above all, safe process.

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