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Applied Lean Solutions Palletizing
1. "Applied Lean Solutions"
May 11,2011
"Applied Lean Solutions" is meant to make everyday industrial/commercial "Lean" topics easier to
understand and provide a fast way to see their uses and benefits and specify your needs.
Palletizing
Palletizers position products onto pallets or unit loads.
Potential Benefits:
1. Reduce load building labor costs.
2. Increase production capability.
3. Reduce lead-time.
4. Improve finished load stability and uniformity.
Typical palletizer applications:
Placing full cases/bags of products on pallets/unit loads.
Building loads of product in bundles, such as roofing shingles.
Bulk palletizing containers without cases (glass, metal, plastic, fiber board, etc,).
Specifying your palletizer:
Determine which products will be palletized.
What are the minimum and maximum product dimensions and weights?
What is the production rate?
Will you use a pallet de-stacker?
Decide what type of palletizer to utilize i.e. dedicated automation, special design, or robotics.
Infeed elevation high or low?
What size and style of pallet will be used?
What dunnage will be used?
How will the empty be pallet loaded?
How will the full pallet empty be unloaded?
The above is a thumbnail sketch. For more information on palletizers or other "Applied Lean Solutions"
topics contact kevin.elphick@indoff.com.
Your input is welcome, let me know what other subjects interest you.
Sincerely,
Kevin Elphick, P.E.
Indoff - Material Handling Partner
Phone: 484-300-0373, e-mail: kevin.elphick@indoff.com
website: www.conveyorsunlimited.com