Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.61
August 01, 2023
…packaging processes. Mitsubish Electric Automation will exhibit automation for consumer packaged goods and life sciences customers as well as OEMs at Booth N-10011 in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company said its Factory Automation Wall will showcase Mitsubishi’s complete line of robots for manufacturing. “While I always look forward to presenting our robots to existing and potential customers at trade shows, I’m especially excited about PACK EXPO,” said Patrick Varley, product marketing manager for mechatronics at Mitsubishi Electric Automation. Vernon Hills, Ill.-based Mitsubishi Electric Automation is a U.S. affiliate of Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Its product portfolio includes controllers,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.09
July 18, 2023
…yet in the form of chronic labor shortages, changing consumer preferences, and demands for more variety and faster production. “Both food and beverage, from a distribution and wholesale standpoint, are very low-margin contributors to overall profitability, so the slightest strain—whether that be labor costs, input costs, raw materials costs, transportation costs—all heavily affect the margins and the profitability of producers, wholesalers, and distributors,” noted Mark Koffarnus, director of major accounts at Yale Lift Truck Technologies. To combat these strains on operations and profits, the industry is turning to technology. Advances in industrial automation, automated forklifts, and robotics that once seemed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.38
June 28, 2023
…said it has developed systems for the automotive, construction, consumer goods, electronics, food and beverage, furniture, logistics, electronics, and medical device industries. SightWorks to serve e-commerce needs OSARO and Mission Design said their partnership will combine OSARO’s SightWorks vision and control software for robotics with Mission’s expertise in designing and deploying specialized systems. Mission said it has provided robots across a broad array of applications in warehouses and fulfillment centers, such as depalletizing, kitting, and bagging. “E-commerce businesses and third-party logistics [3PL] service providers can now automate even the most challenging tasks that couple robot flexibility with the ability to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.60
June 24, 2023
…during the pandemic, as well as high demand from consumers. Home delivery had become critical, and then there were shortages on the worker side. You'd think that supply chains and warehousing would already be automated, but at least 50% in the U.S. is largely manual. Coupled with e-commerce demand and worker shortages, you'll have serious problems. Our team saw during COVID that a lot of these companies have been investing heavily in automation. Now we have haptic sensors and companies like FANUC, Honeywell, Omron, and Yaskawa rolling out robotics. And there's more autonomous technology coupled with 5G, whose low latency…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.83
April 30, 2023
…robotics has revolutionized the way we store and transport goods, transforming the sprawling warehouses of today into hubs of high-tech innovation. In 2021, Amazon had around 350,000 automated mobile drive units in its warehouses. Over the coming years, most warehouses will have high levels of automation. It is already a significant market, representing over $10 billion in annual global spending, bound to grow to $51 billion by 2030, according to Acumen Research & Consulting. The message is clear: Don't get left behind, so use automation to improve your warehouse operations. Warehouse managers increasingly rely on automation to respond to the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.85
April 27, 2023
…a Series C round, bringing its total funding to $191 million. Outrider works with customers in industries, such as consumer packaged goods, retail and eCommerce, package shipping, manufacturing, and intermodal rail. Outrider was recognized in Fast Company’s prestigious 2022 World’s Most Innovative Companies list, placing in the top 10 in the logistics category. With its customers representing over 20 percent of all yard trucks operating in North America, Outrider is a private company backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, FM Capital, and other top-tier investors.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.86
April 04, 2023
…booths worth seeing, and we saw prospects from major consumer packaged goods, third-party logistics providers (3PLs), and the world’s largest e-commerce retailers on the show floor. Robots could be seen throughout the 562,000-sq.-ft. exhibition space, from autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) to truck-unloading robots and automated lift trucks. Customers in warehousing are increasingly turning to automation, and the companies that showcased at ProMat this year demonstrated they are aiming to capitalize on that demand. Whether you were part of the crowd or are catching up from afar, see to the right (below on mobile)…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.45
March 28, 2023
…a variety of end-markets, including the automotive, life sciences, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, industrial and nuclear sectors. “Small payload robots are commonly found in larger industrial manufacturing facilities, but the low-cost entry into robotic automation has recently resulted in significant growth in their use across small, light industrial, and commercial shops,” said Gary Labadie, global product director at Destaco. “Small-payload robots are now a focus and a solution for both large and small facilities coping with the economic climate.” Destaco said the tooling solutions are compatible with cobots that have an ISO 9409-1-50-4-M6 end-of-arm mounting pattern. The company added that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.80
March 28, 2023
…eligible customers across suburban America, delivering food and retail goods from dozens of partnering restaurant chains and retailers. Flytrex listed the following highlights in “ultrafast” drone delivery: Flytrex delivered more than 85,000 items by uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) across 21,350 orders. The average time from takeoff to delivery was 3:32 minutes. The fastest time from order to delivery was 12:13 minutes. On Oct. 14, Flytrex had a record high volume of one order every 5 minutes. Flytrex had over 4,000 unique users in 2022, a 765% increase from 2021. Flytrex’s biggest fan placed a total of 532 orders last year.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.73
March 16, 2023
…and integrators can't meet, he noted. “For example, a consumer packaged goods customer may want to replicate a workcell around the world,” explained Bubnikovich. “For that, we might go direct to provide more value than just the robot.” ABB is “building competence” in the EV space, but there are also opportunities in electronics, pharmaceuticals, and general industry, he said. “We see a ton of opportunities for SMEs with collaborative applications,” Bubnikovich added. “It's all about the ease of integration, not people handing parts to a welding robot, and there's a huge shortage of skilled labor like welders.” “Modern applications incorporate…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.59
February 19, 2023
…said its MP1000R autonomous mobile robot (AMR) can move goods to target locations without human intervention. It uses laser simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology to note paths and traffic lanes. The MP1000R's navigation software enables it to change its map and improve over time as the user’s needs warrant. In Bosch Rexroth's booth, the AMR simulated the transport of assembled materials at the end of line from a workstation to a custom pallet rack. Both were assembled with various components from the company’s aluminum framing portfolio. In addition, the Bosch Rexroth ctrlX AUTOMATION Cube showcased the company’s ctrlX CORE…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.00
February 16, 2023
…broad range of corner cases autonomously.” RIOS caters to consumer-packaged goods customers Consumer packaged goods are the sweet spot for these systems, he added. RIOS has built a lot of software-defined infrastructure for sorting, precision handling, quality checking, and packaging of items. Furthermore, RIOS, not the end user, covers the risk to keep the system operating as needed, even 24/7. “This is revolutionary,” Casse said. “This approach to robotic palletizing is a real inflection point for packaging automation going forward.” Only time will tell, but there do appear to be several new angles on the established capex model that make…
