Westfalia will help you determine which type of conveying and palletizing system will give you the best results. Once we determine the best solution for your needs, we can test your products on our palletizing system demo in-house. Knowing that you need to palletize is an easy decision, deciding which technology is best for your business, is not.
Download: Choosing the correct type of palletizer
Layer Palletizing: Westfalia 870 Palletizer
The Westfalia 870 Palletizer is intelligent, affordable and maintenance friendly. Built for tough environments, this palletizer offers the flexibility to palletize multiple products which improves space in your warehouse, and helps you get the product to the customer faster so you can spend your time acquiring new customers.
Key features:
- Rugged, heavy-duty frame with standard full pallet weight capacity of 4000 lbs.
- Automatic bag palletizer which handles pallets of various sizes and orientation, plus most bags sizes and patterns
- Easy to maintain with accessible, off-the-shelf components within reach
- Rotation up to 180° of bags via dual belt bag turning conveyor or bag turning post/kicker
- Overhead server driven bag turner
Components of the Westfalia 870:
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Sweeper
- Timing belt drive provides quiet operation at high speeds, and smooth acceleration and deceleration
- Encoder on sweeper provides signal for precise sweeper positioning
- Bi-directional switch plates constructed of stainless steel in a split style design
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Touch-screen display
- Allows easy product/bag pattern changeover
- Easy access for maintenance
- Cantilevered lift design
- Allows slip sheet dispenser to be placed inside the machine
- Compresses every layer for a stable load
- Infeed roller conveyor – timer belt driven
- Bag turning via overhead server driven bag turner or dual belt bag turning conveyor
- Lift conveyor
- All-electric fork style pallet dispenser
- 10’ long gravity outfeed conveyor
Download: Specifications of Westfalia’s 870 Palletizers
Robotic Palletizing
Westfalia uses KUKA and Fuji robotic palletizers to handle and palletize cases, pails, bags and barrels. These robots are easy to operate and maintain. A software package is available to enable these units to handle multiple lines and products easily. They also help you reduce labor costs and better predict what’s going to happen a month, six months, and a year into the future. With these robot’s large working envelope, Westfalia can build pallets that few of our competitors can match.
Key Features of KUKA Robotic Palletizers:
- High Reliability – mean time between failures is 70,000 hours
- Low Maintenace – every 10,000 hours
- Modularity – upgrade the payload and reach of the robot as future requirements demand
- Large product range – from small robots to handle 3 kg payloads to giants to handle 570 kg
- Space-saving – large work envelope and minimal space requirements
- Easy to use – Windows based interface
- Long-term investment – Can be reprogrammed to perform additional functions or completely new tasks
- Proven technology – over 60,000 KUKA robots have been installed worldwide.
Key Features of Fuji Robotic Palletizers:
- User friendly software (no laptops required)
- Unique linear track design specifically for palletizing
- Custom designed end effectors for a wide range of applications
- Specialization available for bags, cases, pails, drums, shrink-wrapped bundles, and bottling applications
- Up to 26 cycles/minute
- 75% more energy efficient than leading competitor
- Over 7000 installations
