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AIDCO Product Updates

AIDCO's goal is to provide customized, state-of-the-art products, world-class after sales service and unrivaled warranties at highly competitive prices. We will continually work to understand our customer's changing business needs, document their requirements and build products to meet those needs.

In addition, we continue to seek strategic partnerships with companies who hold the same business philosophies as we do. This allows us to offer a wide range of equipment systems applications and be our customer's integrator of choice.

Here are some of the things we are working on right now:

Centralized Palletizing of Randomly Received SKU

This newly designed robotic system is described in more detail under Our Products - RoboticStar® Robotic Palletizing: Centralized Homogeneous section of the web-site.

Task: A major manufacture of ice cream cones was planning a plant expansion, including the addition of a large warehouse space and wished to centrally build homogeneous pallets of products received at random from multiple production line ovens in this new space. They had 8 manual palletizing points throughout the plant located near the main cone production and packaging areas and wanted to automatically feed all cased products from those multiple areas via conveyor to the new centralized palletizing area.

Solution: AIDCO International (www.aidcoint.com) designed a system of elevator and belt conveyors located at specific production lines to transport randomly received cases to a FlowStar orientation and accumulation conveyor and past a bar code scanner. This identification of the product allowed the cases to be diverted into individual conveyor "slot locations" and this staged product picked up by a AIDCO RoboticStar® robot, whose base is connected to a 18 meter long Gudel linear slide TM-72. The robot moved along the linear slide to one of a series of target pallets and moves again along the slide to place the product per pre-received orders and in a specific pallet pattern on the pallet. The process is repeated, with the robot moving along the slide to various slot locations and then moving to the correct pallet zone and picking and placing product until a particular pallet is full. The pallet is automatically discharged by conveyor out of that palletizing zone to a stretch wrapping zone and the robot picks an places another empty pallet in the zone, where the process is repeated.

Result: Automation of a former hand palletizing distributed process, where two people were building each pallet manually, resulted in increased throughput speed, reduced labor costs and an increased pallet density, with less product damage prior to shipping.

Palligistics™ - Pick-to-Order Intelligent Palletizing Logistics

This newly designed robotic system is described in more detail under Our Products - Palligistics™ Logistics Robotic Mixed Palletizing: Random from Pallet section of the web-site.

AIDCO International is introducing its new, patent-pending Palligistics™ “intelligent palletizing logistics” work cell concept for creating mixed, display, rainbow and re-palletized pallets from pre-formed homogeneous pallets of products or from product carried directly to it by conveying systems. Utilizing a newly developed, patent-pending AIDCO Model GripStar CFVC 200 multi-functional EOAT mounted on a AIDCO Model RoboticStar® robot palletizer and a AIDCO Model FlowStar - Gudel linear slide, the system will traverse between six homogeneous or mixed pallets to create mixed and layer pallets of product. This “intelligent palletizing solution” solves the customer’s problem of needing to re-palletize products from one size pallet to another size for their end-customer’s needs, in addition to allowing “pick to order” palletizing directly at the packaging plant or distribution warehouse from WMS information

Bulk Palletizer Provides Quick Changeover and Increased Speed

This newly designed palletizing system is described in more detail under the Our Products - Conventional Palletizing: Bulk Depalletizing section of the web-site.

AIDCO International is showcasing its redesigned, second generation conventional bulk and case palletizing system - Model SweepStar_Servus SHHL 600 Case Palletizer technology. Using a combination of mechanical and servo-drive technology, it provides increased speed and stability, fewer maintenance issues and faster product changeover for increased product flexibility. When pallet formats are stored in the easy-to-use controller and selected from a menu displayed on a HMI screen, customers can quickly change to handle most pallet sizes to meet market demands and keep operational throughput at its highest efficiency.