Automation for packaging processes
The consumer goods industry is facing major challenges such as increasing demand for customized products, short product lifecycles and pressure to make production processes more efficient and flexible. The boom in e-commerce requires rapid adaptation and a direct approach to customers, while maintaining the highest levels of quality and speed of production. Companies are facing intense competition, making innovative and adaptive solutions essential to stay competitive.
B&R offers machine manufacturers solutions for all types of packaging machines: from primary and secondary packaging to high-end systems that give customers the decisive competitive edge in the fast-moving consumer goods market. Flexibility and efficiency are the keys to effective packaging technology.
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E-commerce & evolving demands
Consumer preferences are shifting toward personalized, convenient, healthier and affordable products, greatly increasing the range of products. At the same time, they expect to shop online and receive products where and when they want them. This is driving the need for automation solutions that enable flexibility, rapid adaptation to changing demands and profitable low-volume production.
Digitization and the pressure to innovate
Technological advances and digitization require rapid adaptation. Companies need to implement digital solutions to ensure more efficient production processes, make data-driven decisions and deliver personalized customer experiences. These challenges require significant investments in technology and an agile culture to keep pace with rapid change.
Simplicity and efficiency
The shortage of skilled labor on production lines is becoming more of a challenge as automated machinery becomes more sophisticated. CPGs are demanding that the next generation of machines be easier to operate and maintain. To meet these needs, CPG companies are looking for innovative automation solutions that can predict problems, respond quickly, eliminate costly downtime and improve product quality.
B&R, your partner when it comes to packaging
Adaptive manufacturing
B&R supports its customers with adaptive manufacturing solutions that significantly increase the flexibility and efficiency of production processes. This is made possible by innovative key technologies that allow production lines to be adapted quickly and easily without the need for complex retooling or specialized personnel. Intelligent track systems such as ACOPOS 6D or ACOPOStrak, Codian pick & place robots, machine vision and digital twins for simulation are perfectly synchronized components.
B&R's seamless automation
With a complete solution, B&R offers everything needed for machine and system automation. The key is that all products work together seamlessly. This perfect synchronization results in unprecedented increases in performance and quality, providing customers with a significant competitive advantage and complete interoperability vertically, from device to cloud, and horizontally, from machine to machine.
Operational excellence
B&R plays a crucial role in increasing machine availability and reducing the cost of unplanned downtime. With mapp technology, customers know what's happening before it happens. Innovative, predictive maintenance technologies enable continuous monitoring of machine performance and early detection of potential problems. This minimizes unplanned downtime and maximizes uptime. With B&R, companies can increase production reliability and reduce costs.
Customized solutions for CPGs
The adaptive machine
In a world of mass customization and e-commerce, machine adaptability is critical to profitability. Today's consumers expect personalized products that meet their individual tastes and are available at any time. The solution is designing machines that can react flexibly to different products – this is the adaptive machine. B&R makes the adaptive machine possible by using intelligent track technology in combination with robotics, image processing and digital twins.
Codian pick & place robots
Labor shortages and maximum productivity and flexibility - this is where robotics technology unleashes its transformative power. Adding robots to machines and production lines is an effective way to increase Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). With Codian, B&R offers the world's largest selection of open delta robot mechanics. Manufactured with high-quality materials and seamlessly integrated into B&R's automation portfolio, Codian stands for quality and innovation. Together, robotics and automation are the answer to the complex requirements of modern industry and enable efficient and future-proof production processes.
Most comprehensive automation portfolio
B&R offers simple, scalable and highly productive automation solutions for industry. Our comprehensive portfolio includes all products needed to automate machines and systems. At the heart of this is our Automation Studio engineering tool, which enables seamless configuration and programming. This integration is the key to unrivaled performance and quality, giving our customers a direct competitive advantage. With advanced digitalization technologies, we help companies make their manufacturing processes more efficient and meet the challenges of the future.
Success stories
Adaptive manufacturing
The highly intelligent ACOPOStrak linear track makes it possible to package both bags and cardboard boxes oin a single machine with the very unique use of shuttles and jig tools.
B&R's complete solution shows how ACOPOS 6D can consolidate multiple processes to enable adaptive manufacturing.
ACOPOStrak is the perfect link between coffee capsule production and cartoning, enabling intelligent product transport from machine to machine.
Robotics
See how B&R's integrated automation with the powerful Codian D4 Delta robot mechanics takes efficiency and flexibility in the food industry to a new level.
IMA Safe's TRIT-ONE cartoning machine offers a flexible, fully automated medical device packaging solution using B&R's Machine-Centric Robotics.
An innovative vision system enables the cartoning system's delta robot mechanics to fill and pack up to 500 cartons per minute with blister packs.
Core automation
Automated by B&R, the Vegatronic 6400 is IMA ILAPAK's new continuous motion bagger that offers best-in-class hygiene and maximum uptime for packaging frozen and fresh products.
MG2, a leading supplier of automated machines for the pharmaceutical industry, has chosen B&R's automation technology as the first global solution to meet both technical and organizational requirements.
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