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“One-up, one-down” should be good enough for supply chain members, but regulatory bodies need to see the big picture.

The food and beverage manufacturing industries are under constant threat from cyberattacks, and organizations must adopt proactive cybersecurity measures.

The company’s UR30 is the second in its new series of cobots and is built on the same architecture as the UR20.

A well-defined maintenance strategy for industrial equipment and machinery is essential for preventing potentially catastrophic incidents, ensuring safety, and improving efficiency.

Mobile devices keep operators informed wherever they happen to be, improving their response time to upsets and changes.

The new plant increases the company’s floorspace by 25%, with room for adjacent buildouts to accommodate growth in medical devices and other niches.

With digitalization disrupting traditional industries, its impact on food packaging is both profound and inevitable.

Niagara Bottling’s new 600,000-sq.-ft. production and distribution facility in Rialto, Calif., manufactures and distributes 120,000 bottles of water per hour. Supporting this throughput are 56 laser-guided vehicles, integrated with a 33,000-position robotic pallet shuttle storage system. Designed and built by E80 Group, the distribution automation operates 24/7/365.

Hawk case packers offer a robotic top-load solution for the food and beverage industries at speeds up to 60 cases or 120 cartons per minute.

The new robot-picking solution, developed at Mecalux’s technology center in Barcelona, Spain, will enhance order fulfillment in warehouses and logistics centers.