Kobims A.S. is a well established company focussed on the production of hollow blocks and other elements made from pumice, in the area of the Turkish capital city Ankara.
The challenge in this project was to implement an industrial robot as cubing station into a more than 10 years old Masa pumice block factory. Additionally, the second layer of the resulting cube should contain empty rows as forklift pockets, no blocks remain as spare and no manual interference should be necessary. Also, the top layer of the cube should be turned bottom-up to avoid damage of the edges during the vertical strapping process. ARTEK solved this project using a Yamawaki robot with a special clamping tool and a customized layer turning device. The cubing software and plant integration was programmed by our partner MIKROHOST.
