Gudel launches new logistics division alongside new products
July 17th 2007

Visitors to Gudel's recent series of open days were given the opportunity to see how gantry technology can be used within the logistics industry for palletising, order picking and buffer storage. They were also introduced to the company's new logistics division, headed up by Mike Vernon.

The four open days at the company's Coventry headquarters also featured live demonstrations of new and previously unseen products from its range.

These products included fully operational models of the FP4-type gantry for palletising operations; the ZP4 linear gantry for pick-and-place operations; the ZPD area gantry, fitted with a new muti-pick head to handle stacks of totes; and a recently-developed special gripper head.

Alongside the Gudel products were demonstrations of a selction of robotic systems. These incorparated various robots, including the Kuka KR40 articulated arm robot and a Toshiba Machine (TM) SCARA robot unit, demonstrating the use of vision systems for high-speed-pick-and-place operations.

Another TM SCARA unit was on show supporting a high speed, fully-automatic box opening installation (ABOT) that has the capacity to open up to 1200 cardboard cases per hour.

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