New user-friendly collaborative robots (“cobots”) help food and beverage processing and packaging companies dramatically boost production output, reduce waste, and cut downtime in line changeovers. Atria Scandinavia implemented collaborative robot arms from Universal Robots to increase production efficiency while keeping staffing costs down. Atria employees can quickly program and implement these user-friendly robots with minimal training and no bulky shielding or safety cages. In fact, Atria plans to scrap a traditional, shielded industrial robot and a bulky packaging machine and automate all of its packaging lines with flexible UR robots.