en.Wedoany.com Reported - Hirata Corporation of America, a U.S. industrial automation solutions provider, officially released the Standard Hirata PLUS Tray & Tote Stackers in June 2026. This system serves as a component feeding solution, offering buffering, separation, and transport of trays and totes to any automated process. The stacker can be easily integrated with robots, vision systems, and end-of-arm tooling for part transfer and assembly.
Hirata Corporation of America is the North American subsidiary of Japan's Hirata Corporation, established in 1980 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The parent company, Hirata Corporation, was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a global leader in industrial automation and production engineering systems, serving industries including automotive, semiconductors, flat panel displays, photovoltaics, and power equipment. Hirata Corporation of America is renowned in the North American market for production engineering systems, offering full-service capabilities from R&D, system design, hardware and software design, manufacturing, assembly, system commissioning, to on-site installation and testing. The company employs approximately 111 people and generates annual revenue of $20 million to $50 million.
The Standard Hirata PLUS Tray & Tote Stackers represent Hirata's latest achievement in material handling automation. Designed to meet the modern manufacturing demand for efficient and flexible feeding solutions, the system can handle trays and totes of varying heights and sizes. Its core functions include: buffering—temporary storage of materials to balance production line cycle times; separation—separating stacked trays or totes one by one for individual feeding; and presentation—precisely positioning materials for robots or operator stations. The system is driven by electric axes, seamlessly handling trays of different heights, and features a compact footprint suitable for space-constrained production environments. Typical applications include workpiece feeding in small-part assembly, and workpiece palletizing for injection molding machines and machine tools.
The launch of the Standard Hirata PLUS Tray & Tote Stackers further enriches Hirata's product line in tray and tote handling, complementing its existing AST series palletizers and SAST series palletizers. This system is designed to help customers in industries such as automotive parts, electronics manufacturing, and medical devices improve material handling efficiency, reduce labor costs, and enhance the automation and flexibility of production lines. As the demand for intelligent and flexible manufacturing continues to grow, Hirata's new stacker system is expected to provide more competitive feeding solutions for the North American and global industrial automation markets.
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