Pallet Quality Inspection

Pallets with broken boards or other defects can potentially bring a production line to a halt if one were to get stuck during conveyance or when being handled by a robot. Work stoppages like that may seem like a minor inconvenience but it can be costly if it becomes a regular occurrence. Inspecting pallets manually requires workers to visually analyze hundreds even thousands of pallets a day which can be overwhelming. Automating the pallet acceptance and rejection process is something we can help you with!

MWES integrates automated pallet quality inspection, rejection and sorting equipment into our automation solutions. The high-speed inspection system inspects incoming empty pallets to ensure the pallet quality by detecting defects that may otherwise cause problems with pallet conveyance, palletizing systems, AS/RS systems or pallet manipulation equipment. This automated solution reduces the responsibilities of the operators on a production line and enables them to focus on other more important areas. The pallet inspection can be used for both wooden and plastic pallets and is being applied to nearly all pallet configurations, which will help prevent load imbalance, production stoppages and potential material loss.

The pallet quality inspection system can handle most types of common pallets, such as GMA, CHEP, PECO, Euro-style and more. The inspection system takes seconds to scans all sides of a pallet looking for protruding nails, cracks in boards and blocks, missing, broken or dislocated boards or blocks, blocked tunnels, logo detection and verification (QR codes, etc.), paper and plastic residue and sorting based on appearance all in real-time. As the system inspects the pallets, the operator will receive real-time data based on set criteria that dictate if a pallet passes or fails and whether it should be taken out of the production line or logistics flow.

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