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Ensuring Safety and Efficiency: the Impact of Pharmaceutical Packaging Automation

After your pharmaceuticals are manufactured, you face the difficult process of managing and shipping your inventory to distributors and end users. This process can be incredibly difficult if your automated systems aren’t customized to your unique product and facility. Not…
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Improving the Food Industry: The Usefulness of Automated Packaging Systems

Are you pushing your food industry production line to its limit? Struggling with products or man-hours lost to human error? Food packaging automation might be the answer! We have worked with dozens of food industry businesses, providing each one with…
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Automation Continues Upward Trend

Pre-pandemic, Pandemic, and Post Pandemic have one common denominator – The need for EOL (End of Line) automation.  While the needs or requirements within EOL automation may have changed, the overarching solution of EOL automation has not.  Pre-pandemic had a…
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Robots, Cobots and AGV’s in Todays End of Line Process

No matter the industry, historically end of line processes were once powered by people.  Whether it was product handling, bag/carton/case loading, palletization and even pallet movement – people were the answer.   However, today’s process requirements have drastically changed.  Key factors…
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Right Sizing Your Automation

Automation has always played a part in the production process.  Since COVID19, automation has become a KEY and prominent factor – dare we say a MUST to succeed in today’s world market.  However, right sizing your automation can be a…
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Digital Transformation in Packaging Automation

Digital transformation continues to play a larger and larger part in everyday operations for manufacturing and processing operations.  From clip boards to computers and relay logic to PLC digital I/O, every business has had to embrace digital transformation at some…
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Packaging Integration Trend

Machines conversing – Wait? What? Interconnectedness is a fast-growing concept among OEMs in the packaging industry.  However, this fast-growing concept is anything but new.  Integration (interconnectedness) is a concept that has been a core value at CPS since inception.  Being…
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Manufacturing Tech Orders Are Up 13%…In a Recession

Despite the recession, manufacturing technology orders are up 13% (AMT Sept. 2022). In this high inflationary time, factory automation orders are up 1%. This could be a sign that businesses are doubling down on the future of their operations, and…
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Equipment Analytics

Many manufacturing companies are dependent on equipment and machinery for their production process, so it makes sense to keep close tabs on the health of that equipment. Equipment Analysis allows users to measure and track asset utilization, and analyze failures and…
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Get Your Facility Recession-Ready with These Tips

As we enter into another recession, it is important to remember that not all businesses will be affected in the same way. Some industries will thrive while others struggle. The demand destruction that takes place during a recession can be…
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