Articles Tagged with ''packaging robots''

More than two decades ago, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, welcomed the packaging industry to the Las Vegas desert with a goal to convene end users and suppliers in the odd number years in between PACK EXPO International in Chicago...

Pioneer of collaborative robots to showcase new cobot-assisted, mobile and modular tabletop system featuring vision-guided multiple part feeding and kitting with conveyor tracking and case loading/unloading.

Today's manufacturing is different than the past – that is an obvious statement. What's referred to as Industry 4.o and the smart factory is the wave of the future, and really the present. It is defined as the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies.

Designed to power innovation across the industry, PACK EXPO Las Vegas will be North America’s largest packaging trade show in 2017, with 875,000 net square feet, 2,000+ exhibitors and 30,000 attendees.

It is hard to meet such rapidly increasing market demands without fully or partly automated production lines, especially in developing markets where the share of manual processes is still high.

The current Stäubli robot line-up for the show is aimed at all packing technology markets. 

Plastics manufacturer Dynamic Group dramatically improved its productivity and output with collaborative robots that paid for themselves in just two months.

There is growing interest in consolidating palletizing/stretch wrapping operations closer to the shipping dock or warehouse facility in order to free up space for additional packaging capacity.