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BINDER GmbHBINDER GmbH

pallet changing station for the beverage industry

Because not all broken glass is good luck...

To prevent damaged pallets from causing glass breakage in the warehouse and thus unnecessary downtime, many operators replace the load carriers with tested specimens before transferring them to the warehouse - a common measure in the beverage industry in particular. BINDER GmbH developed a fully automatic pallet changing station for a leading German beverage manufacturer for this purpose.

The way the system works is as simple as it is effective: three or six pallets are placed on the task by the forklift and separated. They then pass through a contour check before reaching the pallet changer. This lifts the crates with the glass bottles, the unchecked pallet is removed by roller conveyors and replaced by a checked load carrier. The pallet changer places the crates on the load carrier before they leave the changing station and are conveyed onwards. At the same time, empty, intact units are fed into the material flow using the zipper process.

The untested load carriers then pass through the inspection system and - depending on the result - are either reinserted or ejected. The rejects are replaced by new, purchased pallets.

The system functions fully automatically, and the software provides an overview of the current process sequence in the changeover system at all times via an intuitive display and clear menu structure. BINDER installed five of these changeover stations in the new system as part of the project.

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