Use palletising robots more productively, with MultiPack for Robots software

MultiPack for Robots optimises and controls automated palletising and depalletising with items of the same size.

Industrieroboter mit Förderband in automatisierter Verpackungslinie
  • More palletising capacity
    Optimised stacking configurations, efficient gripping cycles
  • Simple operation
    Easily understandable user interface
  • Automatic generation of control data
    No programming required

Calculate optimal palletisations and create control data

Take advantage of the full performance potential for your palletising robot. With MultiPack for Robots you can create in seconds:

  • optimal layer and stacking configurations
  • efficient gripping cycles
  • the associated control data at the push of a button

The software is easy to use, accelerating the familiarisation process for your employees and ensuring a swift transition to other products.

Overview

Your advantages with MultiPack for Robots at a glance

Quick start & intuitive use

Efficiency from the start – without extensive training

  • Intuitive user interface – no programming skills necessary
  • Minimal need for training – ready for immediate use
  • Results in seconds – directly during operation
  • Easy creation of control data – at the touch of a button

More cargo & reduced costs

More products – less effort and lower use of resources

  • Best possible use of pallet storage space
  • Less wrapping film thanks to stable product pallets
  • Noticeable savings in handling, storage, and transport
  • Improved sustainability thanks to the reduction in environmental pollution

Maximum productivity & process reliability

For stable operations and minimal downtime.

  • Simple modification of layer & stacking configurations
  • Optimised gripping & depositing cycles for shorter workflow times
  • Animated 3D simulation for monitoring
  • Maximal system availability thanks to fast adaptation

Forward compatible & versatile

Software that grows with you – even at the project stage.

  • Subsequent installation possible
  • Customer specific extensions if required

  • Creation of valid control data for project development and submission of tenders

  • 3D visualisation for a realistic preview

The functions at a glance

What MultiPack for Robots can do – a selection

  • Configuration of the palletising area (e.g. interfering contours, working area of the robot)
  • Configuration of the gripper (e.g. vacuum, clamp, or fork grippers)
  • Optional use of MultiPick-MultiPlace or MultiPick-SinglePlace
  • Automatic calculation of time optimal gripping cycle sequences

  • Calculation of pallet pallet loads in layers with rectangular, cylindrical, oval or complex packages
  • Optional: interlocking stacking for increased stability
  • Combination of two different layers with rectangular packages
  • Use of different vertical orientations for the packages
  • Definition of a different top layer is possible

  • Visualisation of the palletising process in 2D and 3D
  • Positioning of intermediate layers
  • Positioning of package labels
  • Optional manual post-processing of layer plans and gripping cycle sequences

  • Transfer control data at the touch of a button
  • Integration into control systems is possible

The full range of functions

The range of MultiPack for Robot functions explained

Optimisation module 1/2

In order to maximise the productivity of the palletising robot used, two optimisation modules are employed.

After input of both package and pallet dimensions and based on your specifications, the first module calculates the best layer and stacking plans.

Numerous practical options from MultiPack are available to you, for example:

  • When palletising rectangular packages: mirroring or rotation of single layers, or combinations of different layers in order to achieve a stable interlocking stack
  • When palletising round packages: calculation of optimal layer plans with regular packing configurations, or a mix of different packing structures.
  • When palletising oval packages: calculation of optimal layer plans with regular packing configurations, or a mix of different packing structures depending on the form and dimensions of the oval items.
Palette mit quaderförmigen Packstücken

Optimisation module 2/2

Specially configured for your palletising robot, the second module optimises for every layer plan under consideration:

  • The grouping of packages in the gripper
  • The pick up coordinates of the gripper with the corresponding angle
  • The place coordinates of the gripper with the corresponding angle
  • The place sequence
  • The approach direction of the gripper during the placing

The following factors are taken into account:

  • Interfering contours in the work area
  • How the robot is equipped, for example
    • which gripper is used: vacuum, clamp, or fork gripper
    • the permitted gripper rotation angles
    • the space available for the equipment
    • the reach of the robot arm

This allows your system to fully exploit its performance potential.

Additionaly, MultiPack for Robots can take into account:

  • The position of labels
  • The placement of intermediate layers

All information is stored for subsequent palletising operations.

Lagenaufsichten mit Absetzreihenfolge

Start the palletising robot with just a few clicks

When changing to a new package format, MultiPack for Robots calculates several optimal layer and stacking configurations in seconds.
You choose the best layout for your requirements, with just a click.

  • You can then flexibly adjust the layer configuration and palletising sequence without any programming skills.

  • The integrated simulation shows you directly whether the chosen solution is feasible for your system.

  • Control data for the robot are created automatically and can be exported a the touch of a button, exactly matching the position of the packages.

The result is more productivity, maximum flexibility, and noticeable savings in both time and cost, especially when package dimensions change frequently.

The adjacent animation illustrates the easy operation of MultiPack for Robots. From entering the dimensions of the package and pallet, the choice of stacking configuration, the 2D simulation of the automated palletising, to the automatic generation of the control data.

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Other shapes of packages

MultiPack for Robots also works for other shapes of package. The following illustrations show several examples.

Darstellung einer robotergerechten Palettierung ovaler Eimer mit optimierter Greifreihenfolge in MultiPack
  • Further information can be found here: https://automated-palletizing.com/
    This will give you information on the automatic palletising of packages with different shapes, as well as using MultiPack for Robots for non layered palletising of rectangular packages.

Customer feedback on MultiPack for Robots

What our long term customers say

“PCA has been a customer of Multiscience for almost 30 years. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their excellent cooperation.
All projects have been completed quickly, reliably and without complications.
We look forward to working with Multiscience again in the future to solve our end customers’ problems.”

Markus Reinke, Head of Project Planning
PCA Roboter- und Verpackungstechnik GmbH

“Your software has proven to be extremely reliable and user-friendly in our company. We would particularly like to highlight the competent support and continuous development of your solutions, which are always geared towards practical requirements.”

Dennis Blum, Team Leader, Electrical Engineering & Software
KOCH Industrieanlagen GmbH

Industries

A selection of industries in which MultiPack for Robots is used

Gestapelte Wellpappzuschnitte in einer Lagerhalle der Verpackungsindustrie

Packaging industry

Use MultiPack for Robots in your manufacturing process for the automated palletising of bundled blanks with maximum packing density on the pallet.

Supermarktregale mit typischen FMCG-Produkten wie Pasta, Saucen und Getränken

Consumer goods industry

Use MultiPack for Robots in your manufacturing process for the automated palletising of your products. Unlock the full potential of your palletising robots.

Industrieroboter mit Förderband in automatisierter Verpackungslinie

Robot manufacturers & robot integrators

See double the benefits from MultiPack for Robots: your customers achieve significant efficiency gains with the application of MultPack for Robots. You can generate control data for the customers packing configurations, even in the project planning phase of a new system.

Frequently asked questions about MultiPack for Robots

MultiPack for Robots supports rectangular and cylindrical packages in its base version. Control data for automatic palletising of oval or complex packages (flat cardboard blanks) can be calculated with custom versions.

In our software, vacuum, clamping and fork grippers can be specified.

No. The software will operate on standard windows systems and is generally installed on an office PC in production planning, or directly onto the robot.

Yes. Since MultiPack for Robots only calculates source and destination coordinates, the type of system involved only plays a minor role. When setting the TCP limits, you can choose between a radial working area for multi access robots and a square working area for linear robots.

In the standard version, text files are created which can be imported into the programme of the robot integrator, or further processed. In adapted versions, the delivery can be achieved for example:

  • via TCP/IP as text
  • via TCP/IP directly into the data block of a Siemens PLC
  • by „Robot Web Services“

Yes. For all types of gripper, you can specify whether several packages are to be lifted together. In the standard version, all the packages will have the same orientation. There are customer specific versions in which, for each operation, the packages can be picked up either lengthwise or crosswise. If a turntable is used, adapted versions of the software can take into account a rotation of 180°, so that ideally, the package labels are visible from the outside without any loss of performance.

This is possible in the standard version with a MultiGrip/SinglePlace vacuum gripper. For every place step, individual control data is generated. In addition to the usual information such as coordinates, gripper rotation angle and approach vector, this also contains the vacuum groups that remain active.

When control data can only be generated with programming knowledge or a time consuming teach-in process. None of this is necessary if you use MultiPack for Robots. With MultiPack for Robots, you can calculate the best possible stable stacking configuration. Not all control systems fulfill this criterion.

Profit from the expertise of the Multiscience team

Since 1990, we have been translating the innovations of machine manufacturers worldwide, into effective palletising performance with the development of our control software. With the experience we have gained through this long standing cooperation, combined with our comprehensive solution expertise, we have demonstrated time and again that even with complex tasks in extraordinary situations, Multiscience always finds reliable solutions for automated palletising and depalletising.

Andreas Hammerl
Managing Director

Start your optimisation now

Take advantage of hidden potential in your logistics with MultiPack for Robots, for lower costs and more efficiency. See for yourself by testing the standard version free for eight weeks!