Pick, orient and place products with repeatable robot handling.
Pick-and-place automation can transfer, collate, orient, load, assemble or pack products. The architecture follows payload, rate, travel, orientation and presentation requirements.
What the cell is designed to achieve.
Performance is confirmed against representative products, the complete process and agreed acceptance criteria.
Application outcome to validate during concept engineering.
Application outcome to validate during concept engineering.
Application outcome to validate during concept engineering.
Application outcome to validate during concept engineering.
How the application is defined before equipment selection.
The concept is developed from the full production sequence. This prevents the robot from being selected around one isolated pick while missing presentation, machine time, product variation or operator interaction.
- Define pick and place poses
- Confirm product presentation and variation
- Select gripper principle
- Calculate complete cycle and acceleration limits
- Choose robot architecture and work envelope
- Design rejects, recovery and changeover
What to send for a useful feasibility review.
The quality of the first concept depends on the information available. Photographs and video are useful, but product and process data allow payload, reach, cycle and interfaces to be checked more reliably.
- Product dimensions, mass and material
- Permitted gripping areas
- Pick and place location variation
- Required rate and travel distance
- Orientation and placement tolerance
- Product formats and changeovers
Robot types to evaluate for this task.
These platforms illustrate credible starting points. The final choice follows load, motion, rate, environment, tooling and safety validation.
High-Precision SCARA Robot
Reference model BRTIRSC0603A. Published data is used for initial comparison and must be validated against the complete application.
View reference platform →Five-Axis Fast Parallel Robot
Reference model BRTIRPL1203A. Published data is used for initial comparison and must be validated against the complete application.
View reference platform →Flexible Small Pick-Up Robot
Reference model BRTIRUS0805A. Published data is used for initial comparison and must be validated against the complete application.
View reference platform →Six-Axis Collaborative Robot
Reference model BRTIRXZ0805A. Published data is used for initial comparison and must be validated against the complete application.
View reference platform →Frequently asked questions
These answers provide an initial planning framework. Final requirements are confirmed against the product, process, site and applicable safety obligations.
How fast can a pick-and-place robot run?
Finished rate depends on travel, product presentation, grip time, orientation, release, payload and surrounding equipment. Published unloaded robot rates are not complete-cell guarantees.
Can one robot pick several products at once?
Yes, multi-pick tooling can increase output where product spacing, combined payload, release pattern and infeed control permit.
When is vision needed?
Vision is useful when product position, angle, identity or quality is not fixed by mechanical presentation.
Can a pick-and-place cell handle fragile products?
Potentially. Tooling, contact pressure, acceleration and release must be developed around the product, often using representative handling trials.
Continue planning your automation project
Use these pages to compare approaches, define the application and prepare the information needed for a useful feasibility review.
End-of-arm tooling
Develop the gripping method around the real product and cycle.
Read more →How to choose a robot
Check payload, work envelope, cycle, environment, safety and interfaces.
Read more →Robot automation cost
Understand the complete project scope before comparing budgets.
Read more →3D vision bin picking
Handle randomly presented parts from bins, totes and stillages.
Explore →Robot gripper types
Compare vacuum, mechanical, magnetic and adaptive tooling.
Explore →Review this production task with us.
Send the product details, required output, available space and a photo or short video of the current process. We will review the application and identify the next engineering step.