Combining the strengths of a conventional palletizer with a robotic palletizer is the idea behind a new robotic hybrid automated palletizer.
Most often, canned products arrive at the warehouses of large stores and grocery stores packed on wooden. This type of packaging is very convenient, but it takes a lot of effort and time to put cans or boxes on a pallet. This problem can be avoided if a palletizer is included in the canning line. A device for automatic stacking of finished products on wooden or plastic pallets (pallets).
The most indispensable part of the canning line can be a palletizer at a plant that preserves green peas. Such enterprises operate at very high capacities and any production downtime is fraught with large financial losses. A huge flow of small canned cans cannot be manually stacked on a pallet. And the involvement of a very large number of working hands is far from always acceptable. Palletizers are also used for automatic stacking of group packaging on pallets. Be it corrugated boxes or cans in shrink film.
Over the past decade, there have been two events that have triggered the growth of the pellet equipment market. The first is the consistent increase in the cost of fossil fuels and fluctuations in their prices in the market.
The second is the increased, recently, attention to the cleanliness of the environment.
Raw materials for the production of pellets can be locally produced raw materials, local wood, and other biomaterials. Lasermarkierer arbeiten größtenteils gepulst. Das heißt, sie führen dem laseraktiven Medium gezielt Energie zu.
Sooner or later, all users of pellet equipment (boilers, fireplaces) have a question – Why don’t I make pellets myself? This is usually followed by negotiations with the nearest sawmill for sawdust and searching for a Chinese-made pelletizer on the Internet.
There are a huge number of online retailers that offer a variety of pellet mills for consumers who want to make their own pellets. But the trouble is, more and more often you have to deal with the experience of unsuccessful operation of granulators. Due to the low density of the feedstock and the simplicity of the materials used, these granulators are cheap, which, of course, is of interest to the consumer.
But for the production of wood pellets, they do not have enough motor power, or the durability of the dies. However, not clean on hand resellers advertise these pellet mills as capable of producing fuel pellets. In search of a pellet mill for the production of fuel. One must look for such devices that are designed specifically for these purposes. Many sellers will deliberately mislead you about the capabilities of their products, citing a successful selling model as an example. You must immediately ask to show at least one in action.
If the seller cannot accurately name the difference between pelletizers for wood pellets and compound feed, then this is a characteristic sign that the seller has no experience. Biotechnology is a fast growing business and a lot of people just want to make quick and easy money without investing their time and experience.
The future belongs to robots: 6 trends in the development of robotics in the coming years
1. New materials
Even if we take into account the simplest industrial manipulators, in 2019 there are about 3.5 thousand people per robot. And this ratio is unlikely to grow without radical changes in the science of materials from which robotics is created, the authors of the review are sure. They pay special attention to two promising materials:
gallium nitride (GaN), which can successfully replace silicon for transistor manufacturing;
graphene, a super-thin and super-strong material from which it is possible to produce actuators for robots, new batteries and much more.
2. New sources of energy, technologies for its collection and storage
Considering the amount of heat generated during the combustion of gasoline and the human need for energy, it is easy to calculate that if people were eating gasoline, they would only need 150 g of fuel per day. In turn, electric motors are now even less energy efficient than an internal combustion engine.
For example, this is the improvement of the current lithium batteries, the creation of new batteries based on hydrogen, and so on. Also, we must not forget about alternative, renewable energy sources. Finally, a technology can be implemented to recharge the robot remotely. For example, from energy sources built into the floor or walls.
3. Interaction of groups of robots and people
We are talking about unmanned traffic management systems. To avoid accidents and accidents, transport robots must have a channel of communication with both humans and each other.
4. Navigation in extreme conditions
Robots must understand what they are doing and where they are moving, not only under normal human conditions, but also where people simply cannot get there: for example, in the mountains or on the seabed.
In addition, it is impossible to exclude situations when the robot will remain completely without communication (for example, underground or in the event of a satellite breakdown). In this case, it is important to develop a fully autonomous navigation system for unmanned devices. Similar developments already exist both abroad and in Russia.
5. Machine learning
The development of artificial intelligence is necessary to create truly useful and “smart” robots. Over the next several years, Sberbank analysts identify four fundamental vectors of development in this area:
- increasing the efficiency of using neural networks by complicating their architecture or reducing power consumption;
- teaching algorithmic procedures instead of hard programming, which will simplify and, therefore, speed up the process of acquiring skills by the machine;
- mass adoption of cloud services for machine learning;
- improvement of motor actions of robots thanks to artificial intelligence technologies.
6. Human-machine interaction
The robot economy, like all other innovative technologies, is about increasing productivity. That is, automation is not an end in itself, but a tool for increasing economic efficiency. The authors of the review are inclined to believe that the best result will be shown not by replacing people with robots, but by their cooperation. According to them, the interaction of robots and humans will develop in four main areas:
- a robot as a tool that repeats human capabilities (for example, exoskeletons and prostheses);
- a robot as a tool that expands human capabilities;
- an avatar robot, that is, a machine remotely controlled by a person in hard-to-reach places;
- social interaction with a person, such as voice assistants and chatbots.
