Food & Beverage
UR collaborative robots are used throughout the food and beverage supply chain in a wide range of secondary processes such as packaging and machine tending. Cobots can work in conditions from humid greenhouses to refrigerated rooms to tending hot ovens, relieving employees from repetitive tasks that can cause injury in unfavorable environments.
Collaborative robots in Food & Beverage
Cobots can work around the clock without breaks. This is ideal for seasonal bursts, where cobots can meet production requirements without the need for additional or temporary workers. Factories can exploit the full flexibility of cobots by redeploying them to new product lines or different processes as production volumes change.
Universal Robots' cobots automate repetitive, physically demanding tasks like packaging and palletizing, helping food and beverage producers increase efficiency, reduce workplace injuries, and meet seasonal demand spikes with ease.
Case stories
Raumland GmbH
Raumland GmbH, a family-owned wine bottling company, automated its palletizing process using a UR20 cobot. The cobot relieves employees from stacking heavy cartons, improves efficiency, and adjusts quickly to handle different carton types.
Danish Crown
Danish Crown deployed three UR10e cobots to palletize boxes of meat, reducing the need for manual lifting and cutting employee strain by half. This automation increased overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by 19% and optimized labor costs during seasonal peaks.
Bob's Red Mill
Bob's Red Mill uses the UR20 cobot to automate palletizing tasks, freeing up four operators for higher-value work. The UR20 met their production rates and easily handled cases of varying weights while improving employee safety in confined spaces.
Optimizing dairy production with flexible robot solutions
Cobots are transforming the dairy industry by automating tasks such as palletizing, packaging, and product handling. Whether it’s lifting heavy blocks of cheese or efficiently packaging cream cheese, cobots improve workplace safety by reducing the risk of repetitive strain injuries. Their flexibility allows them to handle various product sizes and packaging types, enhancing overall production efficiency and freeing up employees to focus on more complex, value-added tasks.
Transforming wine production with collaborative automation
In the wine industry, efficiency is key, and cobots are stepping up to streamline bottling operations. Cobots handle the palletizing of wine cartons, reducing manual labor and improving overall workflow. By eliminating the heavy lifting, cobots allow workers to focus on quality control and other high-value tasks, ensuring smoother operations and minimizing bottlenecks at the end of the bottling line.
Boosting productivity in meat processing with cobots
In meat processing, repetitive heavy lifting is a thing of the past, thanks to cobot automation. Cobots efficiently handle palletizing tasks, reducing the physical strain on workers and significantly increasing productivity. With cobots taking care of the heavy lifting, employees can focus on more critical operations, leading to safer, more streamlined production processes.
Smart automation for sugar production
Sugar production has embraced smart automation with the use of cobots to streamline quality inspection and sample handling processes. Cobots manage repetitive pick-and-place tasks, such as handling sugar beet samples, reducing the need for manual labor. This automation not only improves efficiency but also gives employees the flexibility to make process adjustments without relying on specialist intervention.
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Discover how Universal Robots' cobots can help your business increase efficiency, reduce workplace injuries, and streamline packaging and palletizing. Our cobots work alongside your team to handle demanding tasks safely and effectively.
Choose the right collaborative robot for your applications
A range of Universal Robots models are available to address automation needs from precision tasks to long reach and high payload requirements.
Why Universal Robots?
Tried. Tested. Trusted.
Universal Robots has deployed over 100,000 cobots into every manufacturing industry. Companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 giants to local contract machine shops, are leveraging our 6th generation cobots to increase productivity and quality and improve job satisfaction for their manufacturing teams.
Flexible
UR cobots meet the demands for flexibility head-on with industry-leading ease-of-use, intuitive programming, and a powerful back-end for OEMs and developers to add value and meet specific needs. UR cobot-based systems generate ROI that is usually measured in months, not years.
Worker-safe, worker-friendly
Universal Robots has developed the most complete set of safety tools and functions in the industry. Our 17 safety protocols can be configured to meet the varied safety requirements of your plant or facilities and your application risk assessment, letting your manufacturing team work safely side-by-side with UR cobots.
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