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Case Study: Automation

Taking the Next Step in Automation

Overcoming the Challenges to Automate Manufacturing

April 10, 2021

Working with an expert fabricator and integrator flexible enough to customize can help meet requirements while expediting completion.

Spotlight: Market Outlook

Packaging Market Outlook

A global increase in food and beverage consumption is spurring growth

Derrick Teal

March 22, 2021

We published our 2020 Packaging Outlook at this time last year. And, well, the timing of that couldn’t have been worse. This thing that shall not be named really started affecting the world shortly thereafter.

Digitec Galaxus AG Orders 40 Workstations with Logivations Artificial Intelligence Software

March 15, 2021

Logivations W2MO uses neural networks running on a GPU, which can "learn" certain patterns so that goods can be automatically recognized, counted and/or measured.

Automation

The Future of Human Machine Interfaces 4.0

With touch displays, remote control and other advances, HMIs are now a part of everyday machines.

Kristen Kazarian

March 12, 2021

The HMI market was valued at U.S. $4.3 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $5.6 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 5.2% during the forecast period (ResearchandMarkets).

GEODIS and Robopac Partner for Mobile Solution

February 24, 2021

The solution has improved GEODIS productivity and wrap quality.

Sales of Robotic Units in North America Increase

February 1, 2021

For first time on record, yearly non-automotive robotic orders are higher than automotive orders.

Kivnon Introduces Three New Mobile Robotics Solutions

January 22, 2021

Kivnon has expanded its mobile robot portfolio with a new range of automated forklifts and a new rotational lifting platform AGV/AMR.

5 Topics to Discuss with Your Packaging Line Integrator

Eric Collier

January 13, 2021

For many of today’s top CPGs, packaging line integrations have become routine investments; necessary for meeting changing market demands and improving the overall efficiency of production lines. The relative success of a packaging line integration can be determined by answering “yes” to three questions

Automation

Motion Control Advances Move Packaging Machinery Toward Industry 4.0

To enable lot-size-1 production, optimize changeovers, footprint and precision in packaging machines with leading-edge servo drive and software solutions.

Matt Prellwitz

January 6, 2021

Industry 4.0. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Lot size 1. It is difficult to talk about automation today, particularly in the packaging industry, without someone throwing around these terms.

Piab Debuts Pinch Gripper for Food and Chocolate Industries

December 16, 2020

The piSOFTGRIP® 50-2 vacuum-based soft gripper can grip sensitive and lightweight oblong objects with odd geometries and/or objects with an unusual surface.