Applications · Pick & place

A pick & place robot at the pace of your conveyor.

Pick a part and place it somewhere else, thousands of times per shift. The problem is not weight — it is holding the rhythm for eight hours without errors. That is where a person wears out and a robot is only getting started.

The application

In-line pick & place

Take a part from one point and place it at another, thousands of times per shift, at the pace of the conveyor. It shows up on food, plastics and pharma lines. The problem here is not weight — it is consistency. A person can hold the rhythm for an hour; holding it for eight, shift after shift, is where errors and absenteeism appear.

  • What we measure: parts per minute, travel distance and positional tolerance.
  • Typical sectors: food, plastics and pharmaceuticals.
  • Typical equipment: a fast, light-payload arm — or a collaborative robot (cobot) when the pace allows — with a vacuum cup or custom gripper.
  • A good sign: consistent product shape and a repeatable infeed position.
  • Logtix monitoring included in the fee: the cell is watched from our control centre.
Delta robots picking dough balls from a belt and placing them in ordered rows on baking trays.
Before the visit

When a pick & place robot fits

These are the signals we measure during the technical visit. If your operation ticks most of them, the task probably fits.

  • Consistent product shape

    The end effector is designed for your product: vacuum cup, custom gripper or multi-part tool. The shape has to be predictable.

  • A repeatable infeed position

    The robot picks where it expects to find. A guided conveyor or an infeed nest solves most cases.

  • Sustained rate, not spikes

    Constant parts per minute across the whole shift: exactly what is hardest for a person to sustain.

  • Sectors where it already runs

    Food, plastics and pharma: lines with uniform product paced by the conveyor.

Frequently asked

What people ask about this application

Does it work with delicate products, like food?
Yes. The end effector is designed for the product: vacuum cups for smooth surfaces, soft grippers for fragile product, and food-contact-safe materials where required. Food, plastics and pharma are precisely the sectors where this application runs most.
What if my product format changes?
If the change is defined — another size, another packaging — the cell is reconfigured: tooling, recipe or both, and we adjust the proposal. If the product changes constantly and without a pattern, we tell you at the assessment: that task is not yet a robot's job.
Next step

What do your people pick and place all shift?

Book an assessment. We measure parts per minute, travel and tolerance, and give you a clear answer.