Robots make a good case: as robots improve in versatility and decrease in price, their use in case packing increases.(packaging machinery)

From: Food & Drug Packaging | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Case packing used to be a relatively simple operation--as simple as dropping or pushing cartons or other packages into cases.

But mechanical case packing is no longer the only option. The advent of robotics means that packagers have alternatives, based on what they're packing and how fast.

Robots are most commonly seen in palletizing, but as they have increased in versatility and decreased in price, they have become viable for case packing.

Gravity-drop and other mechanical case packing systems are useful for certain straightforward applications, says Dick Mitchell, ...

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