User-friendly packaging robot pays for itself in two months
When finding employees to fill repetitive manual jobs proved challenging, Dynamic Group, a Minnesota-based contract manufacturer, looked to automation. Three collaborative robot arms from Universal Robots have now taken over several repetitive tasks, resulting in production capacity increases of up to 400% and a 60% reduction of operators required for its kitting process.
In Dynamic Group’s kitting application, a UR10 robot uses a vacuum gripper to pick up a “clam shell”—the bottom part of a plastic box. Then the robot picks and places sterile wipes and saline solution into the clam shell, and pushes the loaded shell onto a conveyor. Before the UR10, Dynamic Group required six to seven employees at once for this packaging application.