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Packagers realize ROI with robotics

Learn how six packagers justified the investment in robotic automation through benefits such as increased uptime, reduced labor costs, improved quality, decreased waste, and more.

In its report, PMMI found there are six variables that go into calculating ROI.
In its report, PMMI found there are six variables that go into calculating ROI.

For packaging operations both large and small, making the decision to replace semi-automated or manual processes with robotics can be a difficult one, given the significant capital outlay involved. In fact, according to a new report from PMMI Business Intelligence, Robotics 2019: Innovation 2 Implementation, one of the top five obstacles hindering a faster adoption rate for robotics is cost justification and investment.

As Abhibjit Choudhury, Project Engineer – Filling and Packaging at Campbell Soup—one of six packagers interviewed for Part II of Packaging World’s Special Report on Robotics—shares, in replacing the company’s mechanical depalletizer with a robotic one, it was looking at investing a substantially more than it would have for a traditional palletizer. “As an engineer, you have to make a choice as to whether an investment is really needed,” he says.

In its report, PMMI found there are six variables that go into calculating ROI: reduced labor costs, increased throughput, total cost of ownership, improved quality/reduced waste, decreased worker injuries, and measurable uptime.

In the following article, Campbell Soup, along with Michigan Sugar, BASF, Columbia Crest, Choceňská mlékárna, and Jakov Dulcich & Sons, share what operational challenges drove them to invest in robotics for their packaging lines and how those investments have paid off.

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