References // Palletizer for ferrite cores (ceramics industry)
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| Palletizer for ferrite cores (ceramics industry) |
Everywhere in industry, large quantities of standard and small parts have to be put together to form complete modules and devices during final assembly. With manual assembly, this was done by simply taking them out of the box. However, assembly is increasingly being automated to assure quality and cut costs. Taking the parts out of a box manually can prove very expensive if small parts have to made available in a specific sequence. The palletizer shown here is used, for example, to do this job for ferrite cores (or other small parts).
The parts are oriented correctly and placed on a transport belt by an upstream processing machine. Depending upon the size of the parts, this can be done at up to 100 items per minute. The parts are separated to match the grid dimensions of the pallets or trays by a suitable separator or a servomotor driven belt. A gripper actuated mechanically, magnetically or by vacuum grips a complete row and places it onto the pallet with the aid of a servo axis.
The pallets are taken from one or more stack magazines and placed on a double belt band. The belt transports the pallets into the loading station. Then the filled pallets are put in a stacker unit and stacked up to a freely chosen height. The pallet stacks are removed manually from a downstream roller track or packaged further automatically.
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