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Factory Automation Alleviates Workforce Challenges for Most

Most packaging and processing executives say automation has successfully addressed labor issues, but ensuring this technology is intuitive is more of a challenge.

Surveyed executives support automation to eliminate repetitive or undesirable tasks.
Surveyed executives support automation to eliminate repetitive or undesirable tasks.
PMMI Business Intelligence: 2023 Sustainability and Technology - The Future of Packaging and Processing

Robots as a labor solution can be a hot topic for discussion, but one thing is certain among most packaging and processing executives: they do the job well.

That’s according to PMMI Business Intelligence’s 2023 report, “Sustainability and Technology – The Future of Packaging and Processing. A whopping 88% of Almost all surveyed packaging and processing executives said automation has successfully addressed worker shortages.Almost all surveyed packaging and processing executives said automation has successfully addressed worker shortages.PMMI Business Intelligence: 2023 Sustainability and Technology - The Future of Packaging and Processingexecutives surveyed for the report felt automation efforts had successfully addressed worker shortages and took over manual tasks. Another 8% deemed their efforts very successful, with a total success rate of 96%. 

Automation to take over manual tasks

The use of cobots, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and mobile robots came up repeatedly in responses and was credited with helping to automate a range of manufacturing tasks. Semi-automating previously manual lines was described by participants as particularly successful, with repetitive production operations such as packing product, batching, put-away, case packing, and palletizing singled out as good opportunities for automation.

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