Solving the skills crisis in manufacturing comes in many different forms. And partnerships—be it around education or technology—are critical components in the effort to fill the skills gap on the plant and packaging floors.
Understanding that OEMs play an important role in helping end users solve the labor shortage, Columbia/Okura LLC, a provider of custom engineered robotic palletizing systems, announced a strategic alliance with Universal Robots, a maker of collaborative robots (cobots). This partnership will allow Columbia/Okura to deliver a more extensive range of robotic palletizing solutions to end users, which now includes collaborative palletizing applications.
Columbia/Okura has been working on the development of miniPAL, a mobile collaborative palletizing product that integrates Universal Robot’s UR10e, an industrial cobot with a 10kg payload and 1300mm reach, which enables it to address a wide range of applications in machine tending, palletizing, and packaging. The miniPAL collaborative palletizer, available immediately and on display at PACK EXPO Las Vegas in booth #C-4029, offers end users a variety of benefits, including:
