22/09/2026
One plant, two palletizers. One for bags, one for drums, and a capital plan that treats them as two separate purchases.
The reasoning sounds obvious. Different formats are picked and placed in different ways, so each needs its own handling. What tends to go unquestioned is the next step in that logic: that different handling requires a different machine. It does not.
The part that has to change from one format to the next is the gripper, not the robot beneath it.
Where formats run in sequence rather than side by side, one arm can swap its own tooling and cover both.
Once that distinction is made, the economics of the end of the line look quite different.
How many palletizers are you running for formats that one robot could share?