Automatic palletising and depalletising

With the world's largest portfolio of palletising robots, palletising software and comprehensive services, KUKA offers perfectly matched solutions for robot-based palletising and depalletising in a wide range of industries.

What does fully automated palletising and depalletising mean at KUKA?

As a competent and reliable partner, KUKA offers complete palletising systems for end customers as well as flexible and readily available products for system integrators. From the use of specialised palletising robots to engineering, KUKA provides you with customised and flexible solutions for automatic palletising and depalletising to meet your exact needs.

Everything from a single source: customised, easy-to-integrate and easy-to-operate palletising systems

Palletisers / depalletisers
- Robot systems with payloads up to 1,300 kg and reaches up to 3,601 mm.
- Robots for sectors with high hygiene requirements.
- Automation for palletising in deep-freeze environments.
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Gantry palletisers

KUKA linear robots with various travel lengths and additional options are suitable for palletising as well as loading and unloading.
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Special palletising software

Intelligent software for the digitalization of your palletising processes: palletising, depalletising, object recognition and offline programming.
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Engineering

KUKA provides you with all-round support: from planning your system through to start-up.
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From mono-palletising to intralogistics: KUKA automates palletising processes of every kind and complexity

Mono-palletising

For handling unmixed packages, KUKA offers not only various palletizing robots but also the palletizing software KUKA.PalletTech for particularly straightforward configuration and fast start-up of your palletizing application.

It enables you to carry out the stacking and feeding of such items as:

Vegetable crates
Frozen fish
Trays with chicken eggs
Beer crates
Water canisters

Mixed palletising

For challenging mixed case palletising, we offer various high-performance solutions such as complete feeder systems from Swisslog or software solutions from our global network of system partners, each of which is tailored to KUKA machines and enables smooth integration.

Possible areas of application:

Picking goods
Store-specific pallet layout
Automatic stacking of goods on a pallet according to weight, size and pressure sensitivity
Repalletising in goods distribution centers

Depalletising

For automatic depalletising, you can additionally use the KUKA.PerceptionTech software option together with the rc_visard sensor from Roboception or KUKA.VisionTech in order to identify unclean pallet stacks or unknown heights.

Examples of depalletising:

Unstacking grain bags for loading onto trucks
Unstacking empty glass containers
Unstacking empties
Dismantling pallet stacks and distributing the unladen pallets
Unstacking small load carriers

Cold storage palletising

Even at sub-zero temperatures down to minus 30 degrees Celsius, the KR QUANTEC PA robot in the Arctic version palletizes quickly, precisely and without a protective cover. Its great reach allows for short cycle times and high flexibility during the automatic stacking and setting down of items in a frosty environment. The robot also ensures that an uninterrupted, automated cold chain is maintained.

It enables you to carry out the stacking and feeding of such items as:

Frozen vegetables and frozen herbs
Ice cream
Meat and poultry
Frozen pizza

Are you planning to automate a palletising task?

We create customised palletising cells and work with you to find the ideal solution for your specific needs.

Palletising solutions for increased competitiveness

From the food industry to the metal industry and on to the consumer goods industry: robot-based palletising and intralogistics solutions from KUKA and Swisslog are based on proven technologies and operating concepts, and ensure maximum efficiency in a wide range of areas. Together, we offer years of experience and comprehensive expertise in palletising boxes, bags, crates, containers, glass bottles, frozen food and other products.

Selection of customer examples from diverse industries – the combined expertise of KUKA and Swisslog

Our palletising solutions and robots are used by numerous customers worldwide. In the following section, you will find a selection of our most successful customer examples. There are also further application examples with a wide variety of challenges and solution approaches in our overview for palletising and packaging.

Palletiser in the metal industry

A heavy-duty robot helps the mid-sized company GoPeng Kalsium haul and stack 50-kilogram bags on pallets.

Depalletising of foodstuffs

A KR QUANTEC PA robot depalletises 170 tonnes of flour per day. Advantage: less arduous manual labor, more delivery capacity.

24/7 access to product information and services concerning robot-based palletising

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