Packaging Monitoring

  When do robots make sense in packaging rather than hard automation? And when does a collaborative robot, or cobot, trump a robot? Three experts in packaging automation provide advice on robotics—plus a case study in which the first of three cobots had an ROI of less than two months.       To anyone who has followed automation trends over the years, robotics in general and robotics in packaging are on an upward growth curve. Since 2010, the demand for industrial robots has accelerated considerably…