Stac Egg Depalletization

Eggs are moved into the robot cell via a custom pallet conveyor. 3D vision technology procures an image to differentiate between pallet styles and guides the system into which pallet style will be processed. Once the pallet style determination is made and the system confirms the correct pallet is present, the 3D guidance technology guides the robot into the arm tool to pick stacks of eggs. The stacks are loaded to a conveyor where they are transferred out of the cell. This process continues until all the egg trays have been removed from the pallet. The second robot, guided by 2D vision technology, removes pallet dunnage and places the dunnage into the deconstruction fixture. The second robot deconstructs the pallet dunnage and stacks pallet materials on an outfeed conveyor. When there are no eggs remaining on the pallet, robot 2 removes the pallet from the process and stacks it on the outfeed conveyor.