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PepsiCo automates its first warehouse in Poland with Mecalux

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The intralogistics group Mecaluxhas installed PepsiCo’s first automated warehouse in Poland. The leading global food and beverage company has operated along the Vistula River since the 1970s, opening its first factory in Michrów in 1991.

With 9,000 locations for finished goods, this space is part of the Środa Śląska factory. The plant – the multinational’s most sustainable in Europe – is responsible for distributing thousands of pallets of potatoes daily.

The facilities, which cover an area the size of seven football pitches, “produce bags of potato crisps and other snacks for the European market, primarily Germany”, says PepsiCo. [Read more…] about PepsiCo automates its first warehouse in Poland with Mecalux

Flexiv’s fish fillet shaping solution automates breaded cod production

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Flexiv, a developer of general-purpose robotics solutions, has launched what it calls “a revolutionary fish fillet shaping application”.

Fully automated by the Rizon 4 adaptive robot, the solution utilizes a combination of computer vision and force-control to identify and shape breaded fish fillets, so that consumers receive portions of a uniform size and shape.

Developed for one of Asia’s leading seafood producers, this task was traditionally performed by manual labor, where employees had to carefully shape each fillet to ensure a consistently sized end product. [Read more…] about Flexiv’s fish fillet shaping solution automates breaded cod production