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News Release from: Kuka Robotics | Subject: Kuka KR 240 robot
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 05 December 2005
Aidco picks Kuka for pallet robots
US firm Aidco has selected Kuka Robotics to provide robots for its Palligistics system, an intelligent palletising logistics work cell for creating mixed product or build to order pallets.
Aidco of Michigan, USA, has selected Kuka Robotics to provide robots for its Palligistics system, an intelligent palletising logistics work cell for creating mixed product or build to order pallets "Customers are ordering smaller quantities of a variety of products to keep inventory costs low and Aidco's Palligistics system with the Kuka KR 240 robot gives the manufacturers the ability to custom fill those orders with mixed pallets," said Joe Campbell, Director of Strategic Alliances for Kuka Robotics
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Injection moulding function package will let users integrate robots into any injection moulding machine from 90 to 5500tonne with less installation and engineering time.
The KR 240 lets this six-axis robot be used in homogenous and mixed palletising, as well as high-speed conveyor-tracking material handling applications.
The Palligistics system uses the recently developed Gripstar CFVC 200 end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT) mounted on the Kuka robot.
The EOAT has a two-in-one dual-head design that palletises or depalletises SKUs of varying dimensions, handles cases, shrink-wraps containers, trays and crates for industries including the food, beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical and personal care industries.
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