Palletizing candy orders and never squeezing the chocolates Available to Purchase

The purpose of this paper is to report on the innovative system developed to automatically palletize orders of cartons of candy for shipment to distribution centers.

Designers study the manual system employed by the customer and focused on dividing the workload across robotic and traditional palletizing equipment.

As many as 15 workers could be redistributed to other areas of the plant, as well as helping to prevent injuries, without increasing floor space needed.

Robotics can be very useful but are not always the correct answer for all aspects of every application.

Knowing what others have accomplished can be very useful in structuring an approach to a new automated assembly requirement.