Robotic Advances in the Packaging Machinery/OEM Vertical

By: Sandia Harrison

This month, FPE Automation is happy to announce more wins on PHD Incorporated‘s Top Performer Award list than ever before. FPE made the list a record-setting eleven times!

Packaging machinery manufacturers are a big part of this sudden surge in award-winning innovations. I interviewed my colleague, FPE Automation’s Joe Judge, an instrumental member of the team behind these engineering advances in the packaging vertical. Here’s what he had to say.

“PHD’s robotic end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT) was used on high-speed industrial robots. We know that packaging machinery has evolved, and is evolving. Robotics solved some pain points and made the processes more efficient. These new innovations represent next-generation packaging equipment. The solution included both standard and custom products.”

Packaging Equipment

Engineering has to meet certain, strict criteria to be award-winning. This solution certainly did.

This manufacturer was creating robot cells, with two robots per cell. However, the initial gripping tooling wasn’t performing well.

FPE Automation presented PHD’s EOAT as a solution. We were able to document that it would:

• Be more reliable
• Last longer
• Come with a warranty
• Feature easy-to-use sizing tools and other product advantages
• Be available without extensive lead times
  

According to Joe, there were slightly-lower cost options out there, but the customer ultimately selected PHD because the EOAT, which is such a critical part of the process, performed reliably, in addition to all of the above advantages.

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