Gantry robots in the brewing and beverage industry
Packaging diversity in the brewing and beverage industry has been on the increase for years. For example, whereas all German brewers filled more or less the same beer crates with identical Euro bottles in times past, one nowadays finds a colourful mix of bottle shapes and packaging types. In any event, this plus in versatility involves more changeovers, in particular more sorting and repacking costs, in a nutshell: machinery and equipment has to comply with more complex specifications. Nevertheless, packers and palletisers in the brewing and beverage industry must, at the same time, be reliable, effective and economical. This circumscribes an environment in which freely programmable and flexibly adaptable robot solutions score – especially when in gantry-frame design.
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