Packagers Realize ROI with Robotics

摘要

For packaging operations both large and small, making the decision to replace semi-automated or manual processes with robotics can be a difficult one, given the significant capital outlay involved. In fact, according to a new report from PMMI Business Intelligence, Robotics 2019: Innovation 2 Implementation, one of the top five obstacles hindering a faster adoption rate for robotics is cost justification and investment. As Abhijit Choudhury, Project Engineer - Filling and Packaging at Campbell Soup—one of six packagers interviewed for Part Ⅱ of Packaging World's Special Report on Robotics—shares, in replacing the company's mechanical depalletizer with a robotic one, it was looking at investing substantially more than it would have for a traditional palletizer. "As an engineer, you have to make a choice as to whether an investment is really needed," he says.