Fully customizable control points
A custom configuration according to the defects you want to detect.
Control points available for empty pallet:
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Presence or integrity of soles or friezes:
- Detection of a complete lack of a sole or frieze.
- Detection of a lack of material, on a configurable length, outside the soles or friezes.- Fixation of the soles:
- Detection of a hanging flange (not fixed to the studs) during the unstacking of the unit pallets, this control is carried out at the unstacker.
- Absence of plot :
- Detection of a complete lack of pad, whatever its position.
- Detection of a lack of material on the length of the external studs. The lack of material is configurable on the length of the studs; does not work for the internal studs.- Dimensions:
- Detection of a pallet too long or too small; too wide or not wide enough; too high or not high enough.
- This detection allows the control of outward-facing studs (in the length and/or width direction).
- Detection of nails that protrude too much; Attention: No detection of nails if they do not protrude more than 10mm.- Fork passage:
- Detection of a turned plot protruding inside the pallet.
- Detection of material obstructing the passage of forks.- Solidity of the pallet:
- Detection of a breakage on the soles or the friezes by pneumatic support in several points.
- Pallet humidity:
- Detection of a too important hygrometry rate, in one or several points of the pallet.
- Verification of the weight of the whole pallet.- Pallet color:
- Identification of the color of the pallet.
- Fixation of the soles:
Control points available for loaded pallet:
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Pallet dimensions:
- Measurement of the dimension of a loaded pallet in the length and/or width direction.
- Measurement of the load on the pallet.- Offset of the load in relation to the pallet:
- Detection of a load overhanging and/or too far back in the length and/or width direction.
- Detection of a load on the pallet too high and/or too low.- Pallet bending:
- Detection of a pallet that flexes too much when loaded.
- Fork passage:
- Detection of a turned pin protruding inside the pallet.
- Detection of the presence of material obstructing the passage of forks.- Pallet weight:
- Measurement of the weight of the loaded pallet.
- Pallet identification (RFID, barecode, label, etc.):
- Detection of a barcode, RFID badge and/or other pallet marker for connection to an automated management system.
- Readability of identification:
- Checks the readability of a label, barcode, RFID tag and/or any other pallet marker.
- Offset of the load in relation to the pallet:
Our achievements
For over 40 years, the company MARCEAU has specialized in the design of continuous handling systems.
[LOGISTICS CASE STUDY:]
MASTERPAL® EMPTY PALLETS CONTROL LINE DANONE
For its new logistic center of Viry-Châtillon, DANONE called upon MARCEAU to solve a problem of sorting empty pallets. The new logistic center processes the pallets delivered to the Ile de France area. All the empty pallets from the stores are recovered, sorted and the least damaged ones are sent back to the production sites.
To carry out these different operations, MARCEAU has designed an automatic control and sorting machine of the MASTERPAL® type with three possible choices: compliant pallet; non-compliant pallet and second choice pallet. The second choice pallets are reused on site for order preparation.
The installation is composed of a line of feeding and unstacking pallets, a MASTERPAL® control device, a line of stacking and evacuation "conform pallets", a second line "second choice pallets" and a last one for the non conform pallets.
- Production rate: 240 pallets/hour
- Pallet format: Europe 800*1200
- Removal of stacks of pallets by Forklift truck operator, recovery of second choice pallets by AGV
- Stack height : 15 pallets
[INDUSTRY CASE: KNAUF]
MASTERPAL® EMPTY PALLETS CONTROL LINE
To avoid production stoppages due to pallet breakage in its plaster manufacturing plant in Belgium, Knauf called on Marceau.
To solve these problems, MARCEAU designed an automatic control and sorting machine of the MASTERPAL® type.
The system consists of a pallet infeed and outfeed line, a MASTERPAL® testing device, a stacking and outfeed line for "conforming pallets", a second line for "second choice pallets" and a final line for non-conforming pallets.
- Production rate: 120 palets/hour
- Pallet format: Europe 800*1200
- Removal and pick-up of pallet stacks by forklift operator
- Stack height: 15 pallets
[AGRI-FOOD CASE: BERICAP]
MASTERPAL® CONTROL LINE FOR LOADED PALLETS
To realize the interface between forklift drivers and AGVs in its cork manufacturing plant in Longvic, Béricap called upon MARCEAU.
The equipment installed by MARCEAU recovers the pallets loaded by forklift drivers, then reposition them in the space, and finally it checks the pallet's gauge before presenting it to an AGV.
The pallets are dimensionally checked in the three axes, if a pallet is not in conformity, it is sent back to the deposit station.
- Production rate: 40 pallets/hour
- Pallet format: Europe 1000*1200
- Removal of the pallets by: forklift operator
- Recovery by: AGV
- Positioning accuracy: more or less 10mm
[INDUSTRY CASE: LISI AEROSPACE]
MASTERPAL® CONTROL LINE FOR LOADED PALLETS
LISI AEROSPACE called on MARCEAU to ensure the link between operators and an automatic warehouse. The client needs to ensure that its products do not overflow from the pallet, and it needs to know the precise weight of the pallets entering and leaving the warehouse.
The equipment allows to check the template, to weigh each pallet and to transmit the weight to an operator in text and barcode form. A dialogue is made between the automatic three-dimensional cart and the warehouse management system.
The pallets are dimensionally controlled in the three axes, if the pallet is not in conformity, it is sent back to the deposit station.
- Production rate: 20 pallets/hour
- Pallet format: Europe 1100*1100
- Removal of the pallets by: forklift operator
- Recovery by: AGV
- Positioning accuracy: more or less 10mm
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