HRC-Palettizing cell by AHM with MOTOMAN HC20 Cobot at Verla-Pharm

Robot palletizing without a security fence

Verla-Pharm’s medicines and dietary supplements have been in vogue for decades. But for the industry pioneer, this also means ever increasing throughput and logistics costs as well as the need to ensure optimum utilization of the production space available. In view of this, the tradition-steeped company based in Bavaria is now using a Motoman HC20 palletizing cobot by Yaskawa for the first time.

The blue-and-yellow packaged magnesium produced by Verla-Pharm Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG has been on the pharmacy shelves for 60 years. Magnesium Verla® is the market leader among magnesium pharmaceutical products. But the portfolio of the medium-sized pharmaceutical manufacturer has long included a variety of other mineral and vitamin products in varying dosage forms. Selected herbal medicines, natural substances and high-quality food supplements round off the range of products.

Today, some 270 employees manufacture the successful products at modern facilities located in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg. And the company is still growing. So in the course of ongoing development, the previously manual carton palletizing set-up at the end of an existing production line was to be replaced with an automated solution. The main requirements were that it should be as easy to operate as possible and only require a limited amount of installation space.