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‘Safe-tea’ palletizing of capsules at Nestlé
Manual palletizing at Nestle’s Swiss facility producing tea capsules is replaced with two user-friendly collaborative robot palletizers custom-designed to ensure pallet stability and worker safety.
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Sensors ensure worker safety with cobots
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Magnetic Levitation Supports 6-Degree-of-Freedom Motion Platform
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PET Bottle with Integrated Handle Comes to Market
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Soft Robotic Modular Gripping System
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Multiwall Bag Emptying System Delivers Safety
The automated system replaces manual bag breaking to enhance food safety and operator safety.
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End-to-End Cobot Solution for Blessings in a Backpack
System integrator Allied Technology worked with Universal Robots to create a compact system for packaging food into bags for kids in need.
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Robotic depalletizing increases line uptime from 54% to 80% at Campbell Soup
Replacing a low-level depalletizer with a robotic one for loading glass jars onto an alfredo sauce line results in significant line uptime and reduced labor costs at Campbell Soup.
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It’s a marshmallow world that just got brighter for Just Born
A new robotic packaging system allows Just Born to produce its soft and delicate chocolate-dipped PEEPS® Delights™ and traditional PEEPS® chicks and bunnies in a wide variety of configurations in a much more efficient and highly automated process.
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Robots fight hunger at PACK EXPO Las Vegas
PACK EXPO Las Vegas will debut the Robotics Zone, shining the spotlight on robotics, human and robot interaction, and collaborative robot displays.
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Food industry is ideal for industrial robot adoption
A new PMMI report finds that manufacturers are increasingly using robots as costs have come down and the performance and dexterity of robotics have improved.
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Voice of the packaging and processing industry: Robotics
Robot suppliers, contract packagers, OEMs and CPGs who participated in a new study from PMMI Business Intelligence, “Robotics 2019: Innovation 2 Implementation,” had a lot to say.
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Quick hits from PMMI’s new robotics report
Despite challenges with justifying ROI and a long learning curve, robots in packaging and processing are experiencing better-than-predicted growth. Here is a summary of findings.
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Indoor farming benefits from robotics
Automation reduces traditional labor at indoor farms where produce grows in large warehouses near retail chains.
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Robot use in packaging is booming, and the future looks even better
In the next five years, robotic functionality will drive a whole new system with richer algorithms, dynamic maneuverability, force control, and inherent safety, says a new report from PMMI Business Intelligence.
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4 automation trends to watch
From artificial intelligence to robotics and digital twins, these news stories capture ProFood World's coverage of the leading-edge automation trends you need to know.
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5G infrastructure will boost robot use in manufacturing
Industrial robots are often connected using a wired system because current conventional wireless speeds cannot support the level of speed needed for large scale cloud computing. A 5G infrastructure that carries more wireless data at much faster speeds could change that.
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Secondary packaging operations adopting robots at a blistering pace
A new study from PMMI Business Intelligence reveals growth in use of robots throughout packaging but the demands of e-commerce fulfillment are revolutionizing end of line packaging operations, in particular.
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Industrial robots are outpacing forecasts for global growth
Due to the demands for flexibility to fulfill e-commerce orders, packaging is the second largest market for robots behind auto manufacturing, according to a new study from PMMI Business Intelligence.
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Use artificial intelligence to make production more seamless
At CPG companies, AI can be used to help solve common industry challenges, such as product sorting, quality management, food safety, and even creating new recipes.
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Planning for the impact of automation on jobs
A new report from the Brookings Institution delves into the specifics by highlighting the areas and people most likely to be impacted in the near term.
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Give the robot the dirty, dull or dangerous job
The pros and cons of robots on the processing and packaging lines created a lot of discussion at the Top to Top Summit, where CPGs and OEMs come together to solve pressing manufacturing problems.
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Engineering a digital transformation
L&T Technology Services rolls out “Factory D.0,” a set of technology and engineering services designed to help manufacturers identify areas within the organization that will benefit the most from digitalization.
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Rapid growth ahead for industrial robots in food and beverage processing
Application include meat processing, fruit and vegetable handling, and pick and place for processed foods.
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Exclusive: Experts weigh in on the impact of data
In an exclusive roundtable discussion with Automation World, Georgia Tech engineering, science and research experts shared their insights on the trajectories and effects of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and how the intersection of data and technology is changing the industry.
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2 automation trends for 2019
Life-like gripper robotic technology and artificial intelligence/machine modeling solutions are becoming a reality in food processing applications.
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Robotics in Industry 4.0 – five major challenges for the packaging industry
Industry 4.0 has the potential to alter radically all stages of the packaging industry with new efficiencies and unprecedented accuracy in data exchanges, creating a leaner, more responsive, more engaged supply chain.
