What tasks in a craft brewery can you do with a collaborative robot? Here are five great options to improve the efficiency, consistency and safety of manufacturing in the beverage industry.
We showed in a previous post how craft brewers can really benefit from collaborative robots (aka cobots). These new robots can help to overcome the challenge of scaling up a brewery, without compromising the integrity of the beer. They work alongside you and don’t need safety fences.
But, which tasks should you give to a craft brewing cobot? Here are five great applications to get you started. These applications are also relevant to other beverage manufacturers, so read on even if you’re not a brewer.
Application 1: Packaging
Packaging beer is a perfect task for a cobot. Simple packaging applications only require a robot and an off-the-shelf gripper (you may have to make a custom fingertip to hold your bottles or cans).
In this video, you can see an demo of a …