A simple business case for integrated robotic vision

摘要

As the need for flexibility and adaptability within packaging operations grows, Steve Capon, technical manager of FANUC UK looks at how integrated vision technology can help businesses respond to evolving market requirements more easily and package more complexly shaped products. The last decade has seen a rapidly growing acceptance of robotic automation in the packaging industry, and most particularly within the food packaging sector, with food and drink industry robot sales growing by 15% in the UK in 2015. In the early days the business case for robot integration was based largely on labour reduction, but it quickly became clear that robots had so much more to offer.