In industries such as chemicals and food processing, handling bagged materials remains a persistent challenge—especially in the depalletizing stage.
Soft bags are inherently deformable and often feature complex surface textures. Manual depalletizing is not only inefficient and error-prone, but also physically demanding. Traditional automated solutions, on the other hand, struggle with accurate positioning, frequently resulting in misaligned picking and material damage—ultimately slowing down overall production throughput.
To address these challenges, Transfer Technology has introduced a stable and reliable solution built around the Epic Eye Log L 3D industrial camera. Designed specifically for depalletizing scenarios, it delivers high precision, strong stability, and high efficiency, enabling full automation of soft bag depalletizing and providing a practical path to cost reduction and productivity improvement.
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Key Challenges
For plant managers and automation engineers, the core difficulty lies in the unpredictability of soft bags:
Deformation and irregular shapes:
Soft bags are easily compressed and lack fixed contours, making it difficult for traditional vision systems to accurately detect their spatial positions.
Complex industrial environments:
Strong lighting, dust, and reflective surfaces often interfere with visual sensing, significantly reducing recognition accuracy.
Low manual efficiency:
Human operators typically handle only 80–120 bags per hour, while facing high physical strain, safety risks, and rising labor costs.
As a result, conventional approaches—whether manual labor or pre-programmed robotic systems—often suffer from inaccurate picking, unstable grasping, and low efficiency, making them unsuitable for modern high-throughput production lines.
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Solution & Advantages
To overcome these challenges, Transfer Technology offers a dedicated solution combining the depalletizing-specialized 3D camera, Epic Eye Log L, with robotic picking. By integrating high-precision 3D vision with flexible robotic execution, the system enables fully automated and intelligent depalletizing of soft bags.
Wide Field of View & High-Speed Structured Light
Designed for high-stack logistics scenarios, Epic Eye Log L provides a wide field of view, capturing the entire pallet in a single shot. With a capture time of only 1 second, the system quickly generates high-quality and complete 3D point clouds. Even in environments with strong ambient light interference, it maintains reliable performance thanks to its strong resistance to reflective disturbances.
Sub-Millimeter Recognition Accuracy
Accurate edge detection is critical when handling soft bags, as even minor deviations can lead to suction failure or package damage. Powered by optimized deep learning algorithms, the system achieves recognition accuracy within ±0.2 mm, ensuring precise localization of each bag.
Stable and Precise Robotic Picking
From image capturing and point cloud processing to pose calculation, the full cycle is reduced to approximately 2 seconds per pick.
Even at high speeds, the system maintains ±2 mm picking accuracy, enabling the robot to:
- Gently conform to the bag surface during suction
- Accurately avoid surrounding obstacles
- Effectively prevent collisions and dropped items
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Proven Performance in Real-World Applications
In a large-scale chemical plant deployment, the implementation of Transfer Technology’s 3D vision system delivered immediate and measurable improvements:
Enhanced stability:
The system supports 24/7 continuous operation, ensuring consistent performance while helping reduce operator fatigue during demanding shifts.
Reduced damage rate:
With precise detection of subtle deformations, each robotic pick is executed at the optimal force point, significantly reducing the risk of product damage.
Fast Deployment & High Compatibility
Epic Eye Log L is designed for rapid integration and flexible deployment. It is compatible with a wide range of robotic brands and models, and can handle soft bags with:
·Sizes: 20–120 cm
·Weights: 5–50 kg
This eliminates the need for repeated hardware investments while accelerating project delivery.
Driving Automation Across Industries
Transfer Technology remains focused on solving real-world industrial challenges.
The Epic Eye Log L depalletizing solution has already been successfully deployed across multiple industries, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food processing—proving its reliability, scalability, and practical value through real production results.
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