Category Archives: Auto Palletiser

What Should a UK Manufacturer Automate First? Why End-of-Line Palletising Is the Best Place to Start

Posted on September 15, 2026 by Granta

Most manufacturers we speak to have already decided they need to automate. What they don’t know is where to begin. The answer is usually the end of the line. Not because palletising is glamorous, but because it is the one … Continue reading →

The Granta Cobot Palletiser: How It Is Specified, and Why We Believe It Leads the Market

Posted on September 10, 2026 by Granta

A cobot palletiser uses a collaborative robot rather than a conventional industrial one. The distinction is that a collaborative robot has force sensing built in, which allows it to work in a shared space with people under an appropriate safety … Continue reading →

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Automated Container Unloading: Why It Stayed Manual, and What Changed

Posted on September 7, 2026 by Granta

Container unloading, also known as destuffing, is one of the few operations in a modern supply chain still carried out almost entirely by hand. A container is opened, and two or three people work inside it, lifting cases onto a … Continue reading →

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Manual Handling Risks in Palletising: Hazards, HSE Duties and Control Measures

Posted on August 21, 2026 by Granta

Ask a health and safety manager where the risk sits in a factory and end of line comes up almost every time. It is the same task, repeated: lift a case off a conveyor, twist, place it on a pallet. … Continue reading →

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Why “Ease of Use” Is the Most Important Metric in Robotic Palletising

Posted on August 6, 2026 by Granta

When manufacturers compare robotic automation systems, the spec sheets all shout about the same things: cycle speed, payload capacity, reach, repeatability. These numbers matter — but they’re not what determines whether your automation project succeeds or fails. The metric that … Continue reading →

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Fast Palletiser Installation: Real Customer Experiences of Going Live in Under 48 Hours

Posted on July 24, 2026 by Granta

How long does it take to install a palletiser? For our customers, the answer was less than 48 hours from uncrating to stacking the first case on a pallet — not the 2+ weeks of downtime they were quoted elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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Palletiser Support: How We Keep the UK’s Largest Factories Moving

Posted on July 24, 2026 by Granta

Palletiser downtime is rarely a crisis — product can usually be palletised manually in the short term, and where upstream production is sensitive to stoppages we often design in a dedicated offtake lane. But workarounds are still workarounds, and getting … Continue reading →

How to Identify Bottlenecks in Your End-of-Line Packaging Process

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Granta

An end-of-line bottleneck is the stage of your packing, palletising, wrapping, or despatch process that limits the output of your entire production line. However fast the rest of your line runs, it can only ever produce at the rate of … Continue reading →

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You’ve Probably Already Eaten, Drunk or Touched Something a Granta Palletiser Stacked Today

Posted on July 15, 2026 by Granta

Stop and think about your day so far. The breakfast you ate. The drink you poured. The bits and pieces you picked up without a second thought. There’s a very good chance that several of them spent a moment of … Continue reading →

Achieve with Automation: Our Commitment to Your Throughput Goals

Posted on July 10, 2026 by Granta

Ask any production manager what keeps them awake at night, and sooner or later the conversation comes back to one number: throughput. How many units off the line per shift, per hour, per minute? It’s the figure that gets reported … Continue reading →