At Cascina Italia S.p.A., in Spirano Bergamo, Italy, automated egg handling helps the company to speed up production while eliminating errors. Universal Robots’ (universal-robots.com) collaborative UR5 robot equipped with a pneumatic gripper gently picks and places trays of eggs to load corrugated cases with up to nine layers. The robot automates a task previously done by hand.
“It was highly repetitive, non-ergonomic and time wasting,” recalls Sergio Della Santina, technical manager at Alumotion S.R.L., Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milano, Italy, the integrator for the project.