How cobots provide around-the-clock food production
For the factory workers, it has been a real eye-opener that robots can be so simple to use.
Atria Scandinavia is one of Northern Europe's leading manufacturers of vegetarian and gourmet products for convenience markets and retail chains in need of around-the-clock service.
To do so, many of the 30 employees at Atria's Skene, Sweden, factory work side-by-side with three robot arms from Universal Robots (UR), Ann Arbor, Mich.
Challenge:
Each day, shrimps, olives, artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and other specialties are marked with labels, packed and palletized at Atria Scandinavia. This process has now been optimized with collaborative robot arms, enabling each production line to prepare on average 228 items per hour for delivery. The payback period on the robots is just one year.