The OSARO bin picking and bagging demo at PackExpo 2021 Omron This includes thin plastic bags, corrugated cardboard, and bubble packs. The vacuum cup is designed to pick up all of the various packaging materials for e-commerce fulfillment. Also on display was a new “multi-item” vacuum gripper designed for robotic e-commerce bin picking applications.Then, by pulling a vacuum on the finger pad, the beads are locked into their pattern and can hold a tight, custom fit. The compliant gripper technology uses a finger pad filled with beads to offer passive compliance as the gripper closes on an item.This year, Festo showed two new technologies: While grippers may be mundane, Festo still finds new ways to innovate and improve gripping technology. Festoįesto makes a complete line of gripper and gripping accessories. This was the first time that the company has demonstrated its solution in North America. The company also demonstrated a “void filling” vision application that takes a picture of a filled order box and then determines how much filler product to dispense to accurately “fill the box void” without waste. The solution can work with any articulated robot to depalletize items onto a conveyor. Korea-based CMES Robotics demonstrated random item depalletization using 3D vision to identify box locations on the pallet. This exhibit included several dozen permanent displays highlighting the evolution and innovation in packaging automation over the last two centuries.Įach year, PMMI will bring the “Pack to the future” exhibit to the PackExpo event, and will continue to grow the exhibit as it acquires new “old” equipment worthy of display. PMMI debuted a new historical packaging machinery exhibit for the first time at PackExpo 2021. It is a $90K (USD) solution that provides palletizing for high-mix, low-volume applications and is a great solution for small manufacturers. It mounts the UR 10 on a vertical linear axis that is integrated kinematically within the UR software. This solution wraps a complete palletizing solution around a UR10 robot. My pick for the most innovative product debut goes to the Robotiq Palletizing Solution. Over a dozen new robotic automation products debuted at the show. The downside to Veo is that the Veo safety controller is larger than any robot controller currently on the market. There’s no other solution currently on the market with Veo’s level of safety design. The solution is fully safety certified and includes a completely redundant safety processor that double checks on the state of the system process in real-time. I had the opportunity to talk to CEO and co-founder Patrick Sobalvarro at the show about the solution. The one vendor (at the show) with a universal safety solution is Veo Robotics. The safety zone management solutions detect a human entering the space around the robot and slow or stop the robot motion so that the robot doesn’t injure the human. Compare this to the constraints in speed and payload of a collaborative palletizing solution. This enables the higher speeds and payloads of industrial robots while allowing the actual robots to remain unguarded.
When industrial robots are deployed into palletizing applications, there are now a number of safety certified “safety zone” management solutions on the market.
Industrial robots vs collaborative robots safety This includes both industrial and collaborative robotic manipulators. Delta style robots have evolved to be the mechanism of choice for conveyor picking applications, and there were a number of delta robots on display.įor palletizing, there are many solutions to choose from. The automation stars of this show were robotic palletizers and conveyor picking/packoff robots. Palletizing and packoff are key applications But this event is so huge and covers so much square footage that it felt like I had run a marathon at the end of those two days.
I attended the first two days of this year’s event, and I was impressed by the actual number of folks who showed up for the show. The growth is accelerated in part by e-commerce. Official numbers from the PackExpo website listed the number of exhibitors at 1,500+ and the number of registrants at 23,000+.Īccording to the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, packaging machinery shipments could reach $12.8 billion in 2026, growing at a CAGR of 5.2 percent. PackExpo 2021 returned as a live event this year in Las Vegas, and judging from the participation by exhibitors, and attendance by the industry, the event was a huge success.
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