Located in Batavia, III., GreenSeed Contract Packaging underwent an expansion but was then challenged by the ongoing labor shortage still affecting the industry since the beginning of the pandemic. The company, which serves large and mid-sized consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the food industry, sought new ways to drive distribution efficiencies while keeping costs down. GreenSeed's solution was to turn to automation on the line in positions which could be easily replaced and even performed more efficiently by a robot or collaborative robot (cobot). Though purchasing a robot or cobot was not what the company had in mind. They decided robots-as-a-service was the way to go. Formic-a Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) provider, headquartered in San Pablo, Calif.-designed, deployed, and maintains uptime for GreenSeed's first palletizing systems as a rental system.
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