The Shooter is designed to provide quick transfer loading/unloading of boxes between a cart and a flowrack or supermarket. This transfer is achieved without the operator having to lift the boxes many times. This method is a part of an advanced lean system and reduces the transport muda in logistics. The shooter has a remarkable productivity/cost ratio: it’s a typical example of “low cost automation”
In “transport “mode, the infeedoutfeed are locked by a simple gravity mechanism : boxes cannot fall out.
Once joined with the flowrack the infeed-outfeed are unlocked automatically: full boxes move from cart to flowrack, the opposite for empty boxes. The whole operation is done simultaneously in a short period of time.
During separation the infeedoutfeed are locked again to ensure stability of boxes on the shooter.