Robot unloads heavy bags – case study

As the core business of the Dutch company Van Tuijl is animal feed production, it’s not surprising that thousands of heavy bags need to be handled every day. Before automating with Pickit, the unloading of pallets with bags of different weights and sizes was done manually, in a less than ergonomic way. This could lead to back problems and general unhappiness among employees. Van Tuijl chose to automate their depalletizing process using a KUKA robot and a Pickit 3D vision system.