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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.

The Carton Council of North America and AMP Robotics announce that a second installation of the AMP Cortex robot used to sort food and beverage cartons is occurring at Dem-Con Companies, a Minnesota-based recycling, processing and disposal company.

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.

Schneider Packaging Equipment is proud to announce the promotion of Bob Brotzki to president. 

Combining services draws upon both Omega’s legacy as a provider of highly engineered packaging automation solutions and MACTEC’s leading solutions in unit dose packaging. At Pack Expo, MACTEC’s Nano60 Thermoformer will be showcased.

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.

The mini robotic pallet cell will be running in the ESS Technologies booth N-121 at the Healthcare Packaging Expo, co-located with Pack Expo, in Las Vegas, NV, Sept. 25-27, 2017.

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.

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2017, Bosch Packaging Technology will showcase a customer project to produce and package granola bars on a fully integrated bar system, from mixing to palletizing.