How RōBEX Can Help
We have invested many years into perfecting food and beverage packaging and automation processes.
Today, our partners can count on us to implement not just quality machines, but the right automated solution for their specific food and beverage packaging needs, such as:
- Pick, Pack, & Palletize Systems
- Case Erectors & Sealers
- Partition Inserters
- Tray Formers & Packers
We also perform repairs, maintenance, and upgrades to older generation controls and complete rebuilds.
A Trusted Industrial Services Provider
We know it’s not always clear what path to take to ensure you can achieve optimal efficiencies while proactively addressing complex issues regarding industrial food packaging machines. Whatever your specific need, RōBEX can help to integrate the finest industrial, collaborative, and autonomous mobile robots with your process and workforce to safely optimize your food packaging automation.
5 Benefits of AMR/Cobot Integrations
Here are five areas where RōBEX can support you with Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) or Collaborative Robots (cobots) to help improve your warehouse or factory throughput while staying on top of the regulations:
1. Factory Safety
Automation usually reduces human labor, which consequently reduces the possibility of injuries. However, human involvement in manufacturing will never be zero (at least not anytime soon).
Current trends suggest that there will be increased collaboration between robots and humans rather than total replacement. Implementing AMRs or cobots can be considered one step forward in improving working conditions for the humans involved in the process.
2. Improved Ergonomics
Both AMRs and cobots can participate in moving physical products down the assembly line more quickly and efficiently. These automated solutions can take over some of the more physically strenuous tasks.
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, diverting arduous physical tasks from humans to robots can play a significant role in a company’s overall effort to reduce risk and injury. As OSHA points out, a simple way to reduce ergonomic risk is to eliminate the hazard. Replacing human labor with machine labor solves that issue.
3. Labor Reduction
Companies have relied on automated processes to enhance material handling coordination for a long time.
Experts watching and analyzing the development of automation have been saying for many years that there will only be an increase in the use of and reliance on machines for production. Not too long ago, automating was prohibitively expensive for a small or average-sized manufacturing assembly line.
However, as industrial robot integrators have progressively optimized their processes, automation, particularly in food and beverage packaging, has become more accessible. This comes at a time of absolute necessity as the cost of labor is going up but the number of available workers is going down.
4. Data Collection
Industrial data and artificial intelligence are two significant engines driving food packaging automation forward. In all manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an expansive network of machines installed with sensors, software, and other technologies.
Custom robotics systems using AMRs and cobots are just one part of this extensive system. They can help collect data across your entire manufacturing line, and assist with building a cohesive data architecture that enables you to pinpoint where and how to optimize.
5. Process Consistency
Nearly every industrial process incorporates automation, from battery assembly to vision system inspection to metrology. This means that food and beverage manufacturers can perform physical manufacturing and measurement tasks with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
Where human technicians once had to remove parts individually to track production, these tasks can be completed continuously and consistently with precision automation integration.