Press Releases

07/03/2007

A single robotic palletizer from Columbia/Okura can palletize multiple products without changing tools. The innovative end effector can palletize bags, cases, pails, and more simultaneously and from up to four product lines. Efficiency is increased while saving floor space and machinery costs.  

02/01/2007

Columbia/Okura has added a state-of-the-art facility for testing potential customers’ challenging products on robotic palletizers. Customers may travel to the plant to see the robotic palletizer in action or receive a video. This is a fully operational robot cell dedicated to demonstrations, with a complete selection of end effectors and a knowledgeable team to provide quick turnaround of robotic palletizing demonstrations.  

01/04/2007

Columbia/Okura now offers complete systems integration, including project management, controls, and commissioning from one source. This ensures that your robotic palletizer will work smoothly with your complete equipment line and simplifies processes. Increase efficiency and uptime for your robotic palletizer and other equipment.  

02/01/2006

Columbia/Okura is proud to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the partnership between Columbia Machine and Okura Yusoki. The two companies combined their expertise in palletizing and robotics to bring advanced robotic palletizers to North America.  

12/01/2005

Columbia/Okura’s robotic palletizer is ideal for palletizing export pallets. The size and shape of export pallets are difficult for mechanical palletizers to work with. Instead, the freedom of movement of the robotic palletizer provides quick and efficient palletizing.  

12/01/2005

High speed bag palletizing is possible with Columbia/Okura’s robotic palletizer. The robotic palletizer has few moving parts and operates efficiently, providing increased uptime with low machine wear. High speeds and high reliability are possible with this robotic palletizer.  

12/01/2005

Poly Bags are popular because of their water tight seal and moisture wicking fabric, but are difficult for mechanical palletizers to grip. The Columbia/Okura robotic palletizer firmly grips poly bags and palletizes them efficiently. Few moving parts provide high reliability and increased uptime.  

09/01/2005

Case and pail palletizing is easily done without tool changing by Columbia/Okura’s robotic palletizer. The robotic palletizer uses vacuum grips to easily adapt to a variety of case and pail sizes. The robotic palletizer is also user-friendly with touch screen controls and has few moving parts to maintain.  

05/01/2005

Columbia/Okura’s robotic palletizer quickly and efficiently palletizes rice bags of differing materials and weights. The systems can also precondition rice bags for appropriate stacking styles. Reconfiguring the robotic palletizer for a variety of packing materials and shipping types is easy and requires little downtime.  

02/01/2005

Robotic palletizers from Columbia/Okura can be tooled to depalletize tab-lock reshipper cases, returning them to the production line. Layers of cases are presented at a constant pick height by an indexing hoist mechanism. The robotic palletizer can operate at the highest possible speeds in this depalletizing application.  

06/01/2004

The robotic palletizer from Columbia/Okura can palletize cases at speeds up to 60 cases per minute. The infeed conveyor pre-groups cases into rows, and the robotic palletizer’s end effector picks up entire rows to place on the pallet. The efficiency of the palletizing combined with the robot’s rugged construction lets the palletizer run continuously and with little need for maintenance.  

06/01/2004

Columbia/Okura’s robotic palletizers lift and palletize oversized poly bags of weights up to 50kg. Robotic technology and special end effectors ensure that woven poly bags retain their shape and reduce product damage. With the robotic palletizer the number of bags per pallet can be increased as well.  

09/01/2003

With Columbia/Okura’s robotic palletizer, loose filled bags can overlapped for increased pallet stability and bags per pallet. Special end effectors shift product allowing the “floppy” bag ends to be overlapped. Crowning of the load in the center is prevented as well, and palletized loads can be double or triple stacked in the warehouse.