Case Study | Transfer Technology 3D Industrial Camera Enables Millimeter-level & Second-speed Flexible Bag Depalletizing

In industrial depalletizing scenarios, flexible bags have long been a major challenge for automated upgrading. Featuring soft texture, high deformability and irregular stacking forms, such materials make it difficult for traditional solutions to achieve both high precision and high efficiency in depalletizing operations.

Recently, Transfer Technology has successfully deployed a dedicated depalletizing solution powered by the Epic Eye Log L 3D industrial camera at a large-scale manufacturing enterprise. Supported by reliable field data and stable operational performance, this solution delivers a proven and mature approach to automated depalletizing of flexible deformable materials.

Core Pain Points

The on-site challenges summarized in this project are highly universal in flexible bag depalletizing scenarios:

Insufficient positioning accuracy

Flexible bags are prone to collapse, deformation and adhesion after long-distance transportation and pallet stacking. Traditional 2D vision and mechanical positioning methods fail to accurately identify effective gripping points, frequently causing robotic gripping deviation and empty gripping failures.

Intense production cycle pressure

Manual depalletizing involves high labor intensity and unstable efficiency, which cannot meet the continuous and high-takt production demands of modern manufacturing lines.

Poor environmental adaptability and operational stability

Complex factory ambient light, variable stacking density and irregular bag shapes cause severe interference to conventional vision systems, resulting in fluctuating recognition performance and poor operational stability.

Solution

Millimeter-level positioning accuracy

Delivering a high positioning accuracy of ±1 mm, the camera accurately captures tiny gaps and deformed contours between stacked flexible bags. It guides the robot gripper to achieve precise and gentle gripping, fundamentally eliminating material damage and gripping failures caused by positioning deviation.

Ultra-fast vision response cycle

The entire vision process, from 3D scanning and point cloud calculation to outputting optimal gripping pose, takes only about 3 seconds. The ultra-fast response fully matches high-speed production tact, ensuring continuous, efficient and consistent depalletizing operation.

Guaranteed continuous production stability

The system significantly improves the depalletizing success rate and effectively avoids missed and incorrect gripping. It ensures stable and consistent material supply for downstream processes, laying a solid foundation for the realization of unmanned smart factories.

Customer Value

After official deployment, the 3D vision-based intelligent depalletizing system brings immediate and substantial value to the customer’s production:

Improved production efficiency

The fully automated and steady-cycle depalletizing process greatly boosts the overall operational efficiency of the production line.

Reduced comprehensive operational costs

It minimizes manual intervention and labor management costs, while lowering material loss and damage caused by improper manual handling.

Guaranteed continuous production stability

The system significantly improves the depalletizing success rate and effectively avoids missed and incorrect gripping. It ensures stable and consistent material supply for downstream processes, laying a solid foundation for the realization of unmanned smart factories.

With professional 3D vision technology, efficient self-developed algorithms and in-depth insight into industrial scenarios, Transfer Technology continuously helps industrial customers break through automation bottlenecks, upgrading the intelligence and flexibility of production lines across various manufacturing fields.