Sage Automation is proud to announce the sale of our new lightweight gantry design for use in a palletizing process of poly wrapped paper rolls.

Sage Automation now integrating Kuka and ABB Articulating Arm Robots.

This new robot sorts tires coming from multiple manufacturing lines, stores them, and then palletizes when a full pallet of product is ready. It uses a new inside diameter pick clamp to move varying sizes of tires and a load cell allows it to adjust dynamically for tire compression and hang.

This second video shows the conveyor and robot working together to make multiple picks at a time.

This new robot sorts tires coming from multiple manufacturing lines, stores them, and then palletizes when a full pallet of product is ready. It uses a new inside diameter pick clamp to move varying sizes of tires and a load cell allows it to adjust dynamically for tire compression and hang.

Recently, India has been touted as the second fastest growing market in Asia, allowing for US manufacturers an opportunity for foreign expansion.  Sage Automation, Inc. will exhibit in the upcoming India Rubber Expo in an effort to seize a slice of this growing market.

Sage Automation, Inc. has designed and installed robots and other automation equipment worldwide since 1995, but this will be the first time to take part in a trade show outside of North America.  Please visit us at the Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu India from January 19th - 22nd in Booth #137.

Tubes of various sizes, styles, and lengths require bundling into hex shaped bundles and strapping prior to shipment.  Historically, this has been a time consuming, labor intensive task, which often was the bottleneck in this customer's production cycle.

Sage Automation designed a system to automate this entire process, from the tube cut off section, through to the exit conveyor for the banded bundles.

Plastic processors often receive their polymers in bale form.  These bales weigh about 90 lbs each and are often in "friable" form.  That is, they are a compressed crumb and can be damaged without secure wrapping. These bales are wrapped in film and then inserted into a corrugated carrier for protection.  They are then stacked in aluminum returnable containers for shipment.

Signatures, which are loose stacks of thin printed-paper sheets used in the book making industry, exit the press in uniform, strictly aligned stacks.  These signatures must be stacked on pallets for work-in-process storage.  Successful automation of this application requires that loose stack alignment not be disturbed during the conveying or the palletizing process.

Sage Automation designed a system to meet this customer's demands.

Once folded, printed cartons exit the gluer they are packed in cases and palletized for shipping.

Successful automation of this palletizing process requires that open topped cases with unsealed bottoms (minor flaps out) be successfully transported from conveyor to pallet.  Sage Automation designed a system to meet this customer's demands.