The company highlighted a new fully automated packaging line with four cobots that were randomly picking from moving conveyors and filling backpacks with food for at-risk youth.

Although it once seemed convenient to stop in at a local store to pick up needed items, consumers now can skip the trip altogether and have items delivered to their doors. In turn, this affects how companies package, warehouse, handle and ship products, resulting in a variety of operational shifts.

Honeywell Intelligrated offers connected solutions for automated palletizing equipment in end-of-line manufacturing environments.

Serving as the backbone to packaging operations, today’s palletizers and depalletizers incorporate flexibility, speed, high performance and safety to ramp up operations.

The attachment directly fits onto the forks of any standard lift truck with Liftomatic’s exclusive “Parrot-Beak” clamping system and cushioned belt-cradles.

Ranked among the leading mission-critical components, palletizers and depalletizers must incorporate safety, flexibility, speed and performance in order to keep operations humming along, experts say.

An overall view of the beverage arena immediately highlights the fact that beverage packaging is dominated by logistics: moving materials in some form or another from point A to point B and beyond.

The shows offered several guidepost destinations, including The Beverage Cooler Lounge, The Materials and Containers Pavilion, The Processing Zone, The Reusable Packaging Pavilion, The Food Safety Summit Resource Center and the largest ever Innovation Stage program, the show producer says.

With the influx of SKUs and package options within the beverage market, companies are looking for flexible, efficient production line operations.

Reston, Va.-based PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, reported that the 20th anniversary of its Pack Expo Las Vegas tradeshow not only was a milestone event, but it also was a record-breaker.