In any warehouse or production shop environment, you need to have a pallet inverter, which will be very useful to you.
An automated retourneur de palette (English meaning pallet turner) can make the 180° turn of your item carried by a pallet very easily and conveniently for you while handling the items in your warehouses or shop floors. Your material handling system can become more efficient by introducing such system.
There can be several benefits that you can get in case you take up a product inversion automation project in your company.
Why this project is necessary?
Let us take an example of any printing and die-cutting industry where a box must be properly oriented. In a traditional setup, a few employees may do this operation manually.
They will take a small stack of boxes and then flip them over manually by using their hands, which can be not only inefficient and dangerous for them but also product damage can take place if they are not careful enough.
Therefore, there is a need for automation so that this operation can take place automatically rather than using certain manpower to carry out this task.
If you prefer to use a standalone machine, instead of manual operation then it can offer you a few challenges:
- A coordinated forklift movement will be necessary to carry out this operation as one will pick up your printed material near the press and then another unit would bring the whole load to the machine to do the inversion.
- Also, you will complicate the process as the corrugated packaging is very slippery, unstable, and quite difficult to move over longer distances and needs stretch film or banding which can further complicate the process.
So, to improve the process you will need:
- Elimination of banding and also stretch film before the inversion
- Reduce the number of movements and touches by forklifts throughout the plant
- Finally, a system that can automatically invert the loads without using any manpower.
The following are a few benefits of using any pallet inverter in the warehouse, or production shop floor:
1. Reduced product damage
Just by introducing a pallet inverter, you can easily reduce the amount of product damage both in your warehouse as well as on your production shop floor. Your products will remain better protected against any bumps and any other impacts.
2. Improved efficiency
Also, pallet inverters will help in improving your efficiency in warehouse and production operations by reducing the required time that it may take for loading and unloading products. Besides, it will also help in improving the accuracy of your total inventory management.
3. Reduced labour costs
Last but not the least, by using a pallet inverter you can help to reduce the cost of unnecessary labour that is associated with your warehouse as well as production operations. This is because it will help to automate quite a few tasks that were involved in loading and unloading your products.
So, if you are convinced, then send a proposal to your higher management to take up this project.
