| Supply scope | Air conveyor, roller conveyor, depalletizer, palletizer |
| Function | Move bottles and cases without damage, stack outbound pallets |
| Key control | Accumulation pressure, guide rail gap, pattern repeatability |
| Types | Semi-automatic and automatic palletizing |
| Key decision | Manual, semi-automatic or robotic palletizing |
| Automation | Manual, semi-automatic or robotic |
Four inputs fix the shortlist: the product, the package, the daily demand and the number of formats per week. Everything else, including the brand of the PLC, is a detail that can be settled after those four are written down.
The conveyor is the only part of the line that touches every bottle. Guide rail gaps, transfer plate height and accumulation pressure decide whether bottles jam, scuff or fall. Most unexplained short stops on a mature line trace back to a transfer that was set for one bottle format and never re-set.
| Function | Manual | Automatic |
|---|---|---|
| Depalletizing empty bottles | Rack or hand stack | Layer depalletizer |
| Case palletizing | Operator with pattern sheet | Layer or robotic palletizer |
| Pallet wrapping | Hand wrapper | In-line stretch wrapper |
| Accumulation | None, line stops together | Buffer sized to longest stop |
Reference unit for this duty: the Conveying.
Enough to cover the longest normal stop downstream without stopping the filler, and no more. Extra accumulation hides a problem instead of solving it, and it adds floor space plus a place for bottles to sit and collect dust. The buffer size is a calculation, not a default.
Site requirements, air and power consumption sit with the Depalletizing & Palletizing.
Enough to cover the longest normal downstream stop without stopping the filler. Beyond that, accumulation only hides the problem and adds floor space. The number comes from the stop-time log, not from a rule of thumb.
The same question is worked through from another angle in A Guide to Depalletizers and Palletizers: Automating Line Start.
A depalletizer unloads empty bottles or full cases from a pallet at the start of a line. A palletizer stacks finished cases onto a pallet at the end. They are separate machines with separate footprints.
Guide rail gap and transfer plate height. Both are set for one bottle diameter and both drift when a second format is introduced. Re-set them at every changeover, not once at installation.
Low air pressure, a worn layer clamp, or a pallet that is not square. Empty bottle layers are light, so small errors become fallen bottles at the infeed.
It follows the filler rate with margin for accumulation, not the maximum the conveyor can carry. Running a conveyor faster than the line needs increases scuffing and jam severity.
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Product: PET Bottled Sparkling Water, Canned Soft Drink, Canned Tea
Capacity: 25000CPH (250ml)
Solution:Three Lines,7000BPH(1.5L), 15000CPH(330ml),15000CPH(450ml)
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