PALLETAI
A pallet can meet your supplier’s quality criteria and still be unsuitable for your automated flow.
PALLETAI inspects wooden and plastic pallets against requirements defined for your operation. Identify the pallets you can use, separate those that need a different destination, and get data to support your decisions.
Protect your productivity. Keep usable pallets working. Understand the quality coming into your business.
Tell us about your pallet flowPallets getting stuck in production. Return flows that depend on manual sorting. Labor shortages. An existing pallet checker that does not give you the control you need.
For FMCG manufacturers and retailers, a move toward more automation can make these challenges more visible. AS/RS, AGVs, AMRs and other handling systems introduce requirements that the incoming pallet supply may not consistently meet.
PALLETAI gives you a way to assess pallet condition against those requirements before deciding what happens next.
Pallet pools and recyclers work to their own defined quality criteria. Those criteria do not necessarily match the tolerances and handling requirements of your production line or warehouse.
The question is whether a pallet is suitable for its next use. A visible defect may be acceptable within your tolerances. Another defect may make the pallet unsuitable for a particular handling step.
PALLETAI identifies the pallet type and assesses its condition against agreed inspection criteria. That helps you separate usable pallets from unsuitable ones without treating every deviation as a reason for rejection.
Material-handling equipment presents the pallet for inspection. PALLETAI identifies and assesses it, then provides a pass/fail result or quality grade according to the application.
The result can support routing to continued use, another grade, rework, repair or scrap. Physical separation and stacking are performed by the connected handling equipment.
Inspection results can be recorded in IVISYSCloud to support quality monitoring and supplier follow-up.
PALLETAI supports common wooden pallet designs, pooled plastic pallets and customer-specific pallet types.
Depending on the pallet design and inspection setup, checks can include:
• Pallet and component dimensions.
• Missing or damaged boards and blocks.
• Exposed nails and damaged crossboards.
• Cracks, missing material and deformation in plastic pallets.
• Visible damage to supporting rods and connections between plastic pallet components.
• Relevant stretch-wrap issues, appearance and specified markings.
Coverage is defined for the application. Empty-pallet inspection and inspection with goods on the pallet provide access to different areas and require an appropriate setup.
Assess pallets against the requirements of your handling equipment and separate unsuitable pallets before they reach sensitive downstream processes.
If pallet condition is suspected to contribute to disruptions, inspection records provide data to compare with your operational incident records. This helps your team investigate the relationship rather than relying only on individual observations.
For inbound goods, explore Loaded Pallet Inspection to see how The CAB inspects accessible pallet areas while the goods remain in place.
Returned pallets have different conditions and potential uses. Consistent inspection and grading can help you retain usable pallets, identify repair candidates and separate scrap according to agreed criteria.
A pallet can also be usable while falling short of the quality your supplier agreed to deliver. Inspection records provide a basis for following up those differences.
Explore Pallet Grading & Sorting for quality classification and physical sorting options.
When evaluating mechanical checks, 3D inspection or other approaches, start with the defects, tolerances and decisions that matter to your operation.
Ask which pallet areas need to be inspected, what the results tell you, and how those results will be used. The inspection setup should follow those requirements.
PALLETAI can be configured for straightforward checks, such as missing boards or blocks, or more detailed inspection and grading. Where the application requires mechanical strength testing or other complementary checks, those requirements should be assessed separately.
More than 30 million pallets inspected per year. Dozens of pallet types. More than seven years of operational experience.
PALLETAI is used across pallet manufacturing, goods production, retail, pallet pooling and recycling. That breadth gives IVISYS practical experience with different pallet designs, damage patterns and requirements for continued use.
It also teaches us what it takes to keep inspection working in your environment. Our installations range from cold conditions to hot and humid environments, and from relatively clean automated warehouses to dusty pallet repair operations.
That experience shapes how we build machines that work, day in and day out—and how we configure inspection criteria, plan installations and support you throughout everyday operation.
What pallets do you handle, where do problems occur, and what decisions do you need to make?
Send us a short description of your operation. We’ll help you explore the inspection approach and criteria that fit your needs.
Send inquiryThe pool’s quality criteria may differ from the requirements of your particular handling equipment. Inspection gives you a way to assess incoming pallets against your own agreed operational criteria.
No. Suitability depends on the defect and the intended use. Defined tolerances allow your inspection criteria to distinguish acceptable variations from conditions that require a different destination.
Compare the actual checks and decisions your operation needs: the defects detected, the pallet areas covered, the acceptance criteria and the information available for follow-up. Review whether the setup both identifies unsuitable pallets and avoids unnecessary rejection of usable ones.
The appropriate technology depends on what needs to be measured or detected. Start with your pallet designs, relevant defects and required decisions so that the inspection approach can be assessed against the application.
Inspection records show the pallet conditions identified at the inspection point. Comparing those records with production or warehouse incident data can help investigate pallet-related disruptions. Inspection data alone does not establish the cause of every stoppage.
Yes. The CAB is designed for inspecting accessible pallet areas with goods still on the pallet. Its inspection scope differs from an empty-pallet setup.
Yes. Inspection criteria can focus on major defects, such as a missing board or missing blocks, when those are the checks your operation requires.