Market trends and business perspectives
With good labor getting harder to find and retain, Midwest Engineered Systems has found that automating the more redundant production processes has become a necessity.
Automating these tasks allows the transfer of valuable labor resources to more important tasks.
MWES’s robotic case packing solution does just that for bagged products that have previously proven difficult to automate. [Read more…] about MWES develops robotic system to increase case packing speed
Industrial automation giant Fanuc has launched a new “food-grade” delta robot.
The company says its new DR-3iB “sets a new standard for robotic food handling in terms of payload, speed, reach and sanitation”.
The new DR-3iB delta robot is Fanuc’s latest solution for picking and packing primary and secondary food products. [Read more…] about Fanuc launches new food-grade delta robot
by Sam Francis
ABB has launched the new version of its robotic picking software Pickmaster, which now feature “digital twin technology” to reduce commissioning times.
The product was introduced today at the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai. It will be on display next week at Pack Expo in Las Vegas at the ABB Robotics booth C-2051.
The company says the system is now capable of achieving picking times that are “15 percent faster”, enabling it to increases output and total line efficiency by 40 percent.
ABB Robotics says PickMaster is the market-leading robotic software for vision-guided random flow picking and packing applications for the digital factory of the future. [Read more…] about ABB launches new version of robotic picking software Pickmaster
Designers can be awkward sometimes. Actually, they can be awkward a lot of the time. Something to do with the artistic temperament probably.
To be fair to them, their job is to make their work stand out from what is often an overcrowded marketplace.
So, as a result, in packaging design, for example, you see all sorts of shapes and sizes that could make life really difficult for the people who actually make the physical packaging. [Read more…] about Efficient supply chains: From quirky packaging to highly functional boxes
DHL has invested in four new Sawyer robots in order to evaluate the solution as part of its robotics research and development programme.
The company describes the purchase of the Sawyer robots as “the first step” in its robotics deployment journey.
DHL says the collaborative robots will be flexibly used across its 19 contract packing, or “co-packing”, and production logistics centres across the UK and Ireland region. [Read more…] about DHL invests in four new Sawyer collaborative robots from Rethink Robotics
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