The working environment has seen marked improvement at ABB

The end manual pallet handling

The main aim, when production manager Ole T. Jensen introduced the idea of a palletisation solution from PALOMAT®, was to improve the work environment. He had good experience of the palletisation systems from his previous workplace, and had been used to them being included as a natural part of the pallet flow.


Ole T. Jensen is the Production Manager in the department of ABB that produces exterior claddings and the internals for cable boxes. A certain amount of pallet handling is involved in the production, anything from 30 to 100 pallets per week – and that handling was carried out manually and with forklift trucks.


"I eventually grew tired of watching employees pulling down pallets manually. Furthermore, not everyone in the department has a forklift truck licence, so employees often had to disturb the forklift truck drivers in order to get some help stacking or destacking.", explains Ole T. Jensen, who thought that an automated palletisation solution from PALOMAT® was an obvious way to improve both the working environment and the workflow.


The six employees in the cable box production line are now assisted by a PALOMAT® Greenline – a fully automatic palletisation solution for 15 EUR-pallets, which stacks and destacks empty pallets. And the solution has been very well received:


"People at ABB previously didn't know about the PALOMAT® solution, and our Greenline is actually the only one in the entire factory so far. A few people have stopped by from the other end of the factory, just to see what it can do.", the production manager says.