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Frequent product or format changes
Smaller batch sizes and frequent product changes are now the norm in modern packaging. With flexible automation solutions, you can adapt to these changes without having to mechanically reconfigure the entire system every time.
What changes most often?
Limited production capacity
A single slow-moving step can significantly slow down the performance of an entire production line. Targeted automation of this bottleneck stabilizes overall throughput and increases your capacity without requiring you to restructure the entire facility or hire additional staff.
Where is the biggest bottleneck?
Fixed Material Flows / Intralogistics
When the flow of materials between production, packaging, and warehousing comes to a standstill or requires a new layout, costly delays result. Flexible automated solutions connect your departments as needed without requiring structural changes.
Where is there currently a lack of flexibility?
Uncertainty in planning and implementation
Unclear payback periods, concerns about integration issues, or doubts about the long-term viability of a new system can understandably raise concerns during the planning phase. These concerns can be addressed through forward-looking planning and support from the right partners.
What is currently causing the greatest uncertainty?
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Package sizes
Recommendation: Flexible robotic cell with digitally managed format changes
When packaging sizes change frequently, a solution is needed that does not require mechanical adjustments for every new format. A flexible robotic cell can process different formats using pre-programmed routines or AI-supported systems, thereby reducing unnecessary downtime.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Product forms
Recommendation: Vision-guided pick-and-place robotics
When product shapes vary, recognition becomes crucial. Robotics with machine vision can identify products, grasp them, and process them appropriately.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Intralogistics
Recommendation: Mobile production and material flow architecture
Flexible packaging and palletizing often entail changes in material flows within intralogistics— e.g., in batch production, where internal transport routes may change depending on the order. With rigid conveyor technology, this can only be implemented with significant effort and, in some cases, requires modifications. AMRs can flexibly map transport routes.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Batch sizes
Recommendation: Modular automation cell
For small or varying batch sizes, a scalable solution that isn’t designed for a single product or volume makes sense.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Palletizing pattern
Recommendation: Robot-assisted palletizing with digital palletizing patterns
When palletizing patterns change regularly, palletizing software can replace mechanical adjustments with programmable patterns. This is possible during ongoing operations. Robots can also implement individual layer layouts flexibly and reliably.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process flows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Material Handling
Recommendation: AMR-supported material transport
When walking routes, transport trips, or manual material handling take up a lot of time, autonomous mobile robots are an obvious automation solution.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Palletizing
Recommendation: Ergonomic palletizing automation
Palletizing is often physically demanding and repetitive. Robot-assisted palletizing can reduce the workload on employees and stabilize processes.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Pick & Place
Recommendation: Robot-assisted pick-and-place
Repetitive pick-and-place tasks are particularly well-suited for robot-based automation when products need to be reliably picked up, sorted, or passed on—for example, when repackaging single-variety cartons into mixed packages.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Quality control
Recommendation: Robotics with vision-based process control
When manual inspection becomes a bottleneck, machine vision can help identify and inspect products and trigger defined follow-up processes.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Packaging feed
Recommendation: Integrated Feeding and Handling Solution
When products or packaging are fed manually, an integrated solution comprising robots, conveyor technology, sensors, and grippers is advisable. This often non-ergonomic task can be automated to such an extent that, as a rule, human personnel are only required to replenish packaging materials.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Line speed and throughput
Recommendation: Automated handling or pick-and-place solution
If the line speed is limited, the specific handling step that is slowing down the process should be identified. It makes sense to simulate the processes in the first step to identify where robotics can specifically increase productivity.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Supply of materials
Recommendation: Adaptive line feeding with AMRs
When materials aren't in the right place at the right time, mobile robotics can stabilize production flows and make them more flexible.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Consistent quality
Recommendation: Robotics with vision-based process control
When manual inspection becomes a bottleneck, machine vision can help detect and inspect defective products and trigger defined follow-up processes.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Shift availability
Recommendation: Automation of repetitive core processes
When capacity is limited by staff availability, recurring, physically demanding, or cycle-determining tasks should be automated first.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Changeover times
Recommendation: Flexible format changes via digital process logic
When changeover times cost capacity, the key lies in programmable processes and digitally managed formats rather than purely mechanical adjustments.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Material Handling
Recommendation: AMRs as a flexible alternative or supplement to rigid conveyor systems
While fixed conveyor lines define transport routes, AMRs can design them more dynamically. This allows for more efficient use of production space.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Line supply
Recommendation: On-demand line supply with AMRs
When lines need to be supplied in different or varying ways, mobile robotics offers more flexibility than fixed transfer points.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Provision of materials
Recommendation: Autonomous Material Supply at the Point of Need
If materials are not reliably available where they are needed, AMRs can organize supply in a more demand-driven manner.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Production layout
Recommendation: Modular Production Architecture
A flexible production architecture makes it possible to tailor solutions to individual process steps. Seasonal products, for example, have a particular need for this. Location-flexible robot systems and AMRs make such adaptations easy to implement.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Interim storage
Recommendation: Dynamic Product Transport
When intermediate storage leads to waiting times or time-consuming searches, an intelligently orchestrated AMR fleet can help make routes and handoff points more flexible.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and help address staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Integration
Recommendation: Integrated robotics solution instead of a standalone solution
If interfaces are a concern, the solution should be viewed holistically: robots, grippers, vision, operation, safety concept, and line integration. KUKA’s system partners and integrator network provide targeted support in this regard.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Project complexity
Recommendation: Step-by-step automation with virtual planning
If the overall task seems too complex, a structured approach can help: first simulate, then prioritize, then implement in modules. KUKA’s system partners and integrator network provide support right from the planning phase, not just during implementation.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
ROI
Recommendation: Automation assessment with prioritized use cases
If cost-effectiveness is unclear, the process with the greatest bottleneck, highest manual effort, or greatest repetitiveness should be evaluated first.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we’ll analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Scalability
Recommendation: Modular entry point with a path for expansion
If future-proofing is a priority, the initial automation should be planned as a building block of a future production architecture so that, for example, the facility is not too small or key areas are not blocked off later on. A simulation using a digital twin right from the start is helpful for this. KUKA’s system partners and integrator network provide support here as early as the planning phase, not just during implementation.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract labor shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
Takt times
Recommendation: Simulation before making an investment decision
When cycle times are critical, processes should be virtually tested and optimized before the actual system is set up.
Whether it’s a flexible packaging line, dynamic intralogistics, or scalable production architecture: Together, we analyze how modern robotics can support your production environment and counteract staffing shortages.
Talk to our automation experts about:
- Packaging automation
- Automation of processing operations
- Intelligent robotics
- Future-proof production facilities
- Flexible palletizing solutions
- Digitalization of process workflows
- Quality assurance tasks
- Virtual planning and simulation
- Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)
