Increasing productivity is an ongoing challenge for the Consumer Products Industry. Our automation solutions enable manufacturers in this industry maintain a competitive advantage, by reducing labour costs and increasing production rates. Our machine vision systems are widely used in this industry to enhance product quality and consistency.

Apex Automation and Robotics offers the following automation solutions for the Consumer Products Industry:

  • Complete End-of-Line automation systems
  • Automatic Packaging
  • Automatic Strappers and Stretch Wrappers
  • Case Packers and Palletisers
  • Collaborative Robots for packing
  • Robotic Palletisers and Depalletisers
  • Machine Vision Systems

Robotic Assembly Machine

A leading manufacturer of roof racks developed a new quick-release product consisting of three small components assembled into a single unit. Given that the manual assembly of these parts requires a high level of dexterity and poses a risk of repetitive strain injury (RSI), the manufacturer engaged Apex Automation and Robotics to design and supply a custom-built automatic assembly machine.

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Robotic Case Palletisers with AGV

APEX Automation & Robotics has just completed the installation and commissioning of four Robotic Palletisers for a leading food manufacturer. Integrated with AGVs to load and unload pallets, each robotic palletiser can run up to 12x SKUs with different palletising patterns, without any adjustments to the robotic heads, producing a total of more than 5000 cartons/hr.

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