PL80 and PalletSolver software automate WILLIAMS & HUMBERT winery
Yaskawa's solution with a PL80 robot and PalletSolver software allows Proelan to automate and make production at WILLIAMS & HUMBERT Winery more flexible.
Proelan is a company with more than sixty years of experience in the industrial engineering sector. The company, based in Seville, Andalusia (Spain), has made available to the market innovative and diversified technological solutions in the different industrial branches, through a highly specialized team.
In recent years, it has incorporated a newly created department to promote the development of projects with a high degree of robotization and has created one of the largest robotics training classrooms in Spain. Since then, always relying on the leading brands in the market, it has become one of the leading companies in the development of automation projects with robotics integration in a wide variety of sectors.
- Industries
- Beverages
- Applications
- Palletizing
Automation of the WILLIAMS & HUMBERT winery for a production of more than 5,000 bottles per hour
Involved in the creation of the “Appellation of Origin”: Jerez-Xérès-Sherry, the WILLIAMS & HUMBERT winery is recognised as one of the most prestigious producers in the world. A reputation that must be backed up by the production of wines of the highest quality, but which must also respond to the needs of an increasingly globalised market.
As a result of its success, the WILLIAMS & HUMBERT winery wanted to undertake an automation project that would allow it to significantly increase its production. To this end, the company from Jerez relied on the experience and know-how of Proelan for the design, installation, and commissioning of a new system for packaging up to 5,000 bottles per hour.
Due to the intrinsic characteristics of a winery, the Proelan team quickly realised that this was a special project. With very little space available, they needed to realise a solution that would pack all the cases coming in from up to two different lines. In addition, they needed to complete it in a record time of just 3 months.
In addition to these time and space requirements, there was an even more difficult challenge to meet: the more than 40 different crate variants that had to be processed by the system. WILLIAMS & HUMBERT was looking for a differentiating solution on the market, a system flexible enough to create any format for palletizing and to do so in a simple manner.