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August 2023

Packaging World August 2023

Robots 2023: Smarter, More Adaptable & More Robust

This year’s crop of new robotic equipment and software leans into AI technology, as well as higher payloads, greater flexibility, and increased ease of programming and handling to alleviate the challenges faced by packagers as a result of the labor crisis

August 4, 2023

2023 Packaging Robotics Report

Robotic Pill Fulfillment Modules at the VA Get a Retrofit

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs calls in help to redesign a robotics system for automating its prescription fulfillment processes, after its first failed attempt.

August 4, 2023

Packaging Robotics: Universal Logic's retrofit at the VA

Automation Keeps Kegs Moving at Yuengling

America’s oldest brewery continues a long tradition of using packaging robotics for keg handling, installing two new 6-axis robots that depalletize/palletize kegs at 400/hr.

August 4, 2023

Packaging Robotics: Keg handling at Yuengling

Robotic Case Packer Handles Split-Cup Petfood Packs

Petfood co-packer Simmons Foods selects a robotic case-packing system capable of accurately placing varying product shapes, including a split-cup design, into custom shelf-ready trays and cases.

August 4, 2023

Packaging Robotics: Grippers on Cama case packer

Sustainable Packaging

Refill System Set to ‘De-plastic’ OTC, Pharma Packaging

Startup Cabinet Health offers reusable packaging and a refill system for the healthcare market that it says has the potential to transform the industry.

August 4, 2023

Cabinet Health products in sustainable packaging for CVS

Cobot Deployment Software Results in 90% Time Savings

D:PLOY is an automated platform for building, running, monitoring, and redeploying cobot applications on the factory floor with zero programming or simulation needed.

August 4, 2023

Packaging Robotics: OnRobot's D:PLOY

Operational Excellence

Bottled Water Continues to Make a Splash

Bottled water’s total volume sold in 2022 was 15.9 billion gal, its highest volume ever, surpassing carbonated soft drinks for the seventh year in a row.

August 4, 2023

BMC bottled water report

Big Beer Brands Embrace Heritage and Provenance

Three big beer brands employ packaging designs that capitalize on those characteristics drawing millennials to craft beer brands—authenticity, flavor, and history—to bring them into the fold.

August 4, 2023

New packaging design for the Coors Banquet Legacy Collection

Autonomous Mobile Robots Roll into Packaging Operations

To keep up with packagers’ increased interest in mobile robots, in the last couple of years, more packaging robotics-focused OEMs have entered the market.

August 4, 2023

Packaging Robotics: Stäubli Robotics’ PF3 AGV platform

EOAT Innovation Includes Modularity, Intelligence & Flexibility

With recent advancements in technology, the ability of packaging robotics end-of-arm tooling to perform different tasks based on programmed instructions has advanced significantly.

August 4, 2023

Packaging Robotics: The Flexiv Grav Enhanced gripper

E-comm Complexity Spurs Smart Robot Systems

Advanced robotics systems provide the ability to handle the different packaging and product shapes, sizes, and materials associated with e-commerce environments.

August 4, 2023

Packaging Robotics: Comau's MI.RA/Picker

Heavy-Payload Cobots Take on Palletizing

A range of higher-payload, longer-reach ‘industrial cobots’ introduced over the last two years are accelerating the use of collaborative robots in secondary packaging applications.

August 4, 2023

Packaging Robotics: ABB’s SWIFTI CRB 1300

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