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To ensure its beverages look their best on crowded store shelves and to meet volume demands, a leading bottler installed a new shrink-sleeve labeler with full-package vision inspection that also saved valuable floor space.

Knowing the difference between these three maintenance methods can help you eliminate downtime on your packaging lines and improve productivity.

As brands create powder-concentrate versions of their popular liquid products, they need to keep many operational differences in mind.

Sensors and robotics can help manufacturers reduce resource and energy use and optimize operations, supporting a shift toward sustainable manufacturing.

This is more than the company announced in May.

Let’s look at how far we’ve come with autonomous robots in manufacturing to see what role they can play in the supply chain of the future.