Case Study

Raumland GmbH

Blending family tradition with innovation: Raumland GmbH's automated solution for palletizing wine cartons.

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About Raumland GmbH

Raumland GmbH provides complete bottling solutions for a wide range of wine producers. Its services include wine analysis, filtering, labeling, bottling and shipping, ensuring a streamlined and efficient process for customers. Thanks to its team of experienced oenologists, beverage technologists and technicians, Raumland GmbH guarantees its customers a transparent and end-to-end process. With this integrated approach, Raumland GmbH has become a trusted partner for the entire wine industry while maintaining its focus on quality and expertise.

Industry

Food & beverage

Location

Germany

Size

10-25 employees

Products

Palletizing Solution

Family-Owned Excellence Meets State-of-the-Art Automation to Preserve Quality & Craftsmanship

The Problem

Raumland GmbH processes over five million bottles and 2,500 different wines every year, creating a huge diversity in its bottling operations. In a single 8-hour shift, employees had to handle up to 40 tonnes of packaging, which was inefficient and physically demanding. In addition, all the proposed automation solutions came up against major difficulties, such as lack of flexibility, oversized systems or prohibitive costs, making it difficult to find a solution tailored to the company's needs.

The Solution

To tackle this problem, Raumland GmbH successfully used Robotiq's PE20 Palletizing Solution with the UR 20 cobot. The solution is positioned at the end of the bottling line, between two Euro pallets. It uses a vacuum gripper to simultaneously pick up two cartons of wine from the conveyor belt and palletize them with precision. When one pallet is full, an employee replaces it, while the cobot continues on to the second pallet. The collaborative design of the cobot enables it to work safely alongside staff without protective enclosures, improving both efficiency and safety.

The Results

Robotiq’s palletizing cobot brought benefits on many levels:

Increased Efficiency

The cobot palletizes continuously, avoiding bottlenecks and streamlining the process.

Labor Relief

The physically demanding task of stacking heavy wine cartons manually is eliminated, lightening the workload for employees.

Rapid Adaptation

The solution efficiently handles different types of cartons and palletizing patterns, offering the flexibility needed to adapt to the diversity of wines processed each year.

The Robotiq Palletizing Solution ensures continuous palletizing, minimizes bottlenecks and boosts productivity.

The cobot perfectly reflects what we need. It is a flexible machine, compact, quick to set up, and, ultimately, affordable. We were able to automate a task that was extremely tedious. No one complains about back pain anymore. At least not from palletizing.

Sebastian Raumland, Managing Director, Raumland GmbH