TR Series Robots: Ultra-Fast Automation for Thermoforming & Packaging

Integrating packaging robots in your facility can be an effective way to increase throughput and profits. Learn if they are the right solution for you. Packaging tasks are a standard application for industrial robots. The packaging application involves picking loose parts (commonly from a conveyor)

Plastics manufacturers are increasingly turning to collaborative robots to tend injection molding machines. In an April 23 press release, Universal Robots announced the launch of a new Injection Molding Machine Interface (IMMI) between its e-Series cobots and injection molding machines. IMMI s

Manufacturing engineers, information technologists, and “smart” robots in flexible manufacturing cells are working ever more closely in manufacturing companies around the world. They are the pillars of a sound effort to fully automate even small order batches—with frequent ch

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the economic backbone of some of the most industrialized countries in the world. In the United States, for example, over 90 percent of the business population represents small and medium-sized businesses — in fact, there are 30.7 million small b