Secondary Packaging

Big Packaging Line in a Small Footprint? No Problem if it Handles a Dozen Formats

With the large but flexible Innopack TLM packaging system, a KHS and Schubert collaboration, this many-SKU winery used just one machine to pack a dozen formats and varieties.

July 23, 2020

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Robotics

Siemens Healthineers and DHL Team Up to Target U.S. Supply Chain

DHL Supply Chain will provide service logistics support for Siemens Healthineers’ Customer Service Material Logistics unit, and the two companies will jointly deploy robotics and other technologies at a new facility in Memphis.

July 20, 2020

Robotics

Sick’s Laser Scanner Receives Robotics Innovation Award

SICK, Inc.

Sick, Inc. was awarded a Robotics Innovation Award from the Robotics Business Review for its nanoScan3 safety laser scanner.

July 16, 2020

Robotics

Robots Can Help Fill the Demand for Ventilators

Ventilators are essential in the fight against COVID-19, but an analysis shows a global shortage of 880,000 ventilators. Collaborative robots could help meet the demand.

July 15, 2020

Robotics

Lantech Announces Partnership With Rees Machinery Group

Lantech

Lantech, LLC announced a global, strategic partnership with Rees Machinery Group (RMGroup, Ltd), combining Lantech’s expertise in case and tray handling equipment with RMGroup’s innovative, robotic automation systems.

July 14, 2020

Robotics

Universal Robots Hosts Virtual Cobot Expo

Universal Robots

Universal Robots will host a Virtual Collaborative Robot Expo and Conference on July 28-30, 9am-4pm EDT.

July 9, 2020

Robotics

Mobile Industrial Robots Appoints New President

Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR)

Denmark-based Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) appointed Søren Nielsen president. Effective August 1, Nielsen, will take over the responsibilities of MiR co-founder and CEO Thomas Visti.

July 8, 2020

Sustainability

ABB Remanufactures Robots

ABB Robotics

ABB’s remanufactured robots program allows existing robot users to sell inactive or legacy robots to ABB with a buy back service, rather than scrapping them or leaving them unused in a corner of the factory.

July 7, 2020

Robotics

Acieta

July 1, 2020

Robotics

Universal Robots Supports OPC UA Protocol

Universal Robots

Universal Robots, a manufacturer of collaborative robots, supports the OPC UA protocol for use with its robots.

June 16, 2020

Robotics

Gerhard Schubert GmbH Drives Innovation with New Digital Technologies

Schubert North America

Packaging machinery manufacturer Schubert is addressing the increasingly complex market requirements of greater product diversity and smaller batch sizes.

June 15, 2020

Controls & Machine Components

RōBEX Named Certified System Integrator for MiR

RōBEX

RōBEX LLC announced it achieved certified system integrator status for MiR Robots Americas Inc., becoming only the fourth Certified System Integrator for MiR in North America.

June 10, 2020

Sustainability

Sustainability in Secondary Packaging Lines

Secondary packaging lines need greater precision when handling materials with variances in content and weight, according to a new report by PMMI Business Intelligence.

May 27, 2020