Robotics in the Food Industry - Page 1

Automation

J. Skinner Baking Automation is a Piece of Cake

May 7, 2021

Thanks to a modular machine system, a complex classic dessert is packaged with accuracy and speed.

robots needed to solve for dexterous manipulation

Machinery

Consumer-Centric Manufacturing and Its Impact on Packaging Strategy

Consumers of the fourth industrial revolution have more choices and control than ever before

Carl Vause

April 9, 2019

Success in the packaging industry during the next 10 years will hinge upon building a deep understanding of and connection to the empowered consumer. As consumers place an increasing value on choice, control, convenience and experience, retailers will need to embrace disruptive technologies and novel approaches to manufacturing.

Toshiba Machine SCARA robot from TM Robotics

Machinery Technology: Robotics

Robotic Solution for Food Packaging

Reduced size, higher speeds optimize automated loading system.

Nigel Smith

June 14, 2018

Fold it, seal it, tape it, box it, pick it, place it — automate it. These are the separate processes that Finland-based Orfer Oy needed to automate to speed up its packaging operations. However, automating these processes without expanding factory floor space proved to be a challenging feat.

Robotic Tray Packer Designed for Display Trays

Supplier Products

Product Focus: Robotics

May 27, 2018

Supplier products featuring innovations in robotics.

Cover Story

Robotics and the smart factory

Smart machines and industry 4.0 accelerate productivity

Liz Cuneo

September 18, 2017

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.

Modular, Flexible Robots Make Packaging Changes Easy

September 5, 2017

How many businesses require a stationary packaging robot that repeats a single process for its entire usable life? Not many in today’s market, where high-mix/low-volume has become the norm.

Case Study

Automated egg handling

submitted by Universal Robots

August 22, 2017

At Cascina Italia S.p.A., automated egg handling helps the company to speed up production while eliminating errors. Universal Robots' collaborative UR5 robot equipped with a pneumatic gripper gently picks and places trays of eggs to load corrugated cases with up to nine layers.

Collaborative robots (cobots) replace shielded industrial robots

Flexible, easy-to-program cobots replace shielded industrial robots, cutting downtime and boosting output

June 8, 2017

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.

User-friendly robots beef up productivity for fresh-food packaging

May 5, 2016

Three robot arms from Universal Robots (UR) work side-by-side with employees to prepare an average of 228 items per-hour, per-production line for round-the-clock, fresh delivery to retailers.