ABB Robotics recently launched a solution for difficult depalletizing tasks across a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods. The solution involves a machine vision software that can quickly and efficiently process assorted loads. 

As the pandemic has had unforeseen impacts on beverage manufacturing, experts note that advanced palletizing systems have helped warehouse operations increase efficiencies while bringing returns on investment.

In a famous episode of the “I Love Lucy” show, Lucy and Ethel go to work in a candy factory where their packaging skills are put to the test. Chocolates make their way one by one down a conveyor, and the women must wrap each one before it reaches the next packaging station. If one chocolate makes it past them unwrapped, they’ll be fired.