TRAPO GmbH

TRAPO pickers: solutions for the tasks of the packaging industry.

Pick-and-place applications play a central role in the packaging industry. They include gripping, sorting, providing and packing in cardboard boxes and are based on the framework data of the product: the condition, weight and format.
Conventionally with articulated arm or delta robots - alternatively with TRAPO's own low-maintenance kinematics (HPPS series). This innovation offers more performance: with its enormous stroke and extended radius, it ensures consistently high process quality, flexibility, optimum machine availability and enormous cycle rates.
Picker solutions from TRAPO are used optionally and in line with the respective product - and supplemented by NIO applications.
Of course: the individual gripper technology

*1 System | 1 Control
The high-performance picker with parallel kinematics covers all requirements.
The big advantage: hardware and software are supplied by TRAPO from a single source, saving time and money for the life of the machine.
The flexible modular system allows for individual customer requirements and payloads.
Accordingly, hardware and control technology are adapted, installed and maintained from a single source.

*Kinematic picker solution with long stroke and 360° angle of action.
When picking and packing into cartons, parallel kinematics ensure consistently high quality operations and machine availability. The large stroke can even be increased by using a longer spindle.
The HPPS series' high-performance parallel kinematics use a Z-axis and rotary module for orientation. The modular system has an optional three or four degrees of freedom for smooth execution of picking and packing tasks.
The HPPS series' 3 payload classes handle wet, dry or irregularly shaped food products, as well as primary and secondary packaging.
In doing so, the HPPS, payload class 6 kg, accurately covers packing tasks under high performance.

Fully automated TRAPO picker line forms mixed trays.
Consumers in supermarkets take the choice at a glance for granted: there are six different types of soup to choose from on a tray, a layer of 30 yogurts in many flavors, or a tray with three varieties of instant coffee. For the manufacturer, this used to be a challenge: employees manually packed mixed trays from single-variety trays according to instructions.
These packing tasks are now handled by the fully automated TRAPO picker line with kinematics - with HPPS series pickers and HKS series packing robots.
The pick and place solutions include gripping, sorting, providing and packing in cardboard boxes and are oriented to the framework data of the product: the condition, weight and format.

TRAPO: The perfect (de)palletizing solution for every product.
As a source of impetus and ideas in the automotive supply industry, TRAPO took the first steps in automation together with customers. Today, customers from all manufacturing industries benefit from this expertise, which has grown over many years.
TRAPO offers maximum flexibility when it intelligently automates intralogistics tasks - in the perfect interplay of palletizing and depalletizing systems and customized robot grippers.
Customers benefit from the accumulated knowledge of the specialist teams for the lifetime of the machine, but have only one central contact person.
This reduces time, sources of error, and costs.

Exact layer and stack formation as a preliminary stage to palletizing.
The tasks of the packaging industry and products specific properties determine the requirements for a palletizing system. TRAPO creates solutions for these needs with combinations that come together to form the perfect overall system.
Several combination options are available: In the feed area, reliable layer formation by: Conventional methods or the parallel kinematics programmed for high performance (HKS series); for any pallet size.
In the infeed area, depending on the capacity and product, single or double pushers with x-axis and, on request, additional z-axis or additional intermediate pusher are used.

Flexible: 4- or 6-axis jointed-arm robots.
The high-performance systems palletize, sort, load, and pick single pieces, rows, partial layers, or complete layers quickly and with high precision.

Powerful: gantry robots
TRAPO gantry robots operate on two or three linear axes in cubic space. We design and manufacture the gantry robots in our in-house production facility in Gescher-Hochmoor. They move particularly heavy products even over long distances.

The all-rounder among layer palletizers: the HLP 6000 fits always and everywhere.
The HLP series palletizers operate with high and low infeeds. The product family of high-performance layer palletizers is optionally equipped with a y-axis, rotary module or even a traversing axis - so that one palletizing station or several can be served as needed.
The HLP 6000 high-performance palletizer from the HLP series offers high performance in the tightest of spaces - and serves an almost unlimited range of products: highly flexible, as it can be adapted to any product and any packaging task.
The HLP 6000 lays down perfectly and thus realizes any layer patterns of different formats.
Where space is lacking on the floor, TRAPO builds into the second floor.

TRAPO: High-performance depalletizer.
Until now, depalletizing tasks have often been carried out manually. A depalletizer as an integral part of an automated line enables stable, safe operations, offers consistently efficient and traceable production processes.
Depalletizers remove palletized goods and place them on conveyors.
High-performance layer depalletizers (HLDP series) from TRAPO offer several innovations at once: The space-saving arrangement of the modules enables operation at ground level. The output of up to 90,000 empty cans per hour is impressive. Due to its modular design, the HLDP can also handle jars and bottles in the same way.
This innovative solution impresses with the use of a lifting column in combination with a magnetic or vacuum gripper and thus enables the efficient depalletizing of empty food cans (tinplate / aluminum) or empty jars - with an output of up to six layers per minute. This corresponds to about 1,500 empty cans per minute.
Depending on weight and condition, gantry or articulated arm robots plus grippers are used.

Configure pack pattern & pallet format online: TRAPO Pack
Absolutely automated - enormously flexible: The TRAPO software configures the optimum layer pattern from the dimensions of the package and the pallet - for perfect stacking as the basis for stable shipping units.
TRAPO's proprietary software is the basis for efficient palletizing under high performance: less energy input and reduced material consumption.
The generated layer patterns are optimized on the monitor. Layer patterns and pallet loads can be configured by the user and saved for subsequent palletizing operations.
The software monitors the process, minimizing downtime during layer formation and palletizing.

TIM, the TRAPO Intelligent Management System
TIM was already introduced in 2018 in the TRAPO technical center for the needs of plant and mechanical engineering as a ME system (Manufacturing Execution System).
TIM is industry-independent, customer-configurable, connects production plants and also includes third-party plants.
Plant monitoring
With TIM, customers can keep an eye on their key business figures in real time. TIM can be integrated into customers' ERP systems.
Plant operation
TIM offers a web-based, user-friendly HMI (Human Machine Interface) interface as a human-machine interface.
Plant optimization
Continuous monitoring and the data collected from it enable targeted optimization of the monitored plants. In addition, TIM specifies the optimum time for predictive maintenance - and simplifies ordering processes by providing a digital shopping cart.

Precise robot grippers for packaging tasks.

Robots are used in every area of the packaging process. The goal: highly automated, traceable and hygienic processes.
The key to success is individual gripper technology: it influences and enhances the performance of a fully automated palletizing solution; in each case adapted to the industry, product and package. The robot grippers are adapted fully automatically to the production conditions in terms of mechanical and control technology.
In addition to the selection of the suitable robot system, the use of the optimum gripper - also multifunctional gripper - has a decisive effect on sustainably increasing and securing the performance and quality in the process sequence.

Multifunction gripper for difficult products
At FACHPACK, the TRAPO team will be showing a special solution for safely depalletizing aerosol cans and placing them on the conveyor belt. The special challenge of the product: The center of gravity is in the upper area of the can, plus an extremely thin contact surface - both of which increase the risk of tipping on the conveyor bath and during gripping. The multifunctional gripper also has another special feature, which at the same time illustrates the sustainability concept of the TRAPO application: a knife for cutting open the corners in the fold of the cardboard tray - for space-saving stacking of the cardboard as part of the recycling concept.

Gripper solutions for every product and every industry.
Versatile multifunctional grippers are developed in the TRAPO Technical Center to grip workpieces of any size and geometry. They are used in fully automated robotic applications as well as in collaborative assistance robots. They are adapted to their task, developed in the technical center and tested in the neighboring assembly hall. One example is the efficiency of combination grippers, which combine the task of several grippers in their function; the time-consuming and costly changing of grippers is no longer necessary.

*Human-Robot Collaboration (MRC).
Wherever possible and necessary, TRAPO humanizes workplaces. Instead of replacing employees, the goal is to use robots as an additional hand to the human colleague. In doing so, MRK robots revolutionize collaboration within production by isolating sources of error and sustainably relieving employees.
Assistant robots recognize humans and do not pose any risk of injury. The robot - equipped with the perfect gripper - works as an additional "hand" of the human colleague - in doing so, hands and gripper can touch each other and safely act next to and with each other during the processing of workpieces.
When humans and robots perform assembly work together, this optimizes working conditions within production - and as a result increases efficiency, flexibility and safety.

Autonomous transport shuttle with cobot attachment
The combination of a mobile, collaborative robot (cobot) with specially developed gripper changing systems or individual grippers provides additional added value. Across all industries, the mobile duo of transport shuttle and MRK robot relieves the workload exactly where it is needed: in conveying, palletizing and depalletizing, precise layer formation and accurate packaging. The MRK solution handles automated work steps and can be programmed for different tasks.
Another advantage is the multiple use of existing space. This is because assistant robots dock where their work is needed.