Folding cartons are made in two steps: printing and folding/gluing.  Historically, the press output is stacked and stored as Work in Process (WIP).  At a later time this material is then removed from storage, manually unloaded, and fed into the gluer hopper.

Sage Automation designed a pallet to gluer feeding system that eliminates the manual unload and gluer feed processes.

Press-to-Gluer Systems are available as single line units or as multi-line units.  Systems are available that collect the printed and cut stacks of folding cartons from multiple presses and deliver them to a central gluing area.

A vast reduction in WIP is a major benefit of these systems.  Justification is often made by ergonomic gains with WIP reduction being a bonus.

Compilation of various FANUC robot solutions.

Today's faster presses simply exceed the capability of people to manually handle the off-loading and hopper-feeding operations.