How has the pandemic forced us to adapt in the food manufacturing industry?

"businesses must build on the lessons learned from the pandemic and drive automation to levels that will stretch their creativity and staff" FORRESTER: Predictions 2022: The Pandemic’s Wake Drives Automation Trends

The adoption of new digital technologies will likely be one of the top trends in 2022, and it will be of no exception for food manufacturing industry. One of the trends we can expect is increased automation.

COVID-19 pandemic has shifted workforce priorities and accelerated efforts to implement technologies to automate processes. Food manufacturing is one of industries affected and faced impacts on labour and operations.

The top 4 common challenges faced are:

• Need to cut labour on-site due to difficulties in hiring/ manpower shortages
• Need to put in place a combination of control measures such as safe distancing between staff at the workplace
• Time-consuming for manual label printing, peeling and pasting
• Incorrect or poor placement of label which makes barcode difficult to read

In order for people and machines to work together better, technology solution providers like SATO have to constantly explore a variety of automation solutions and partners, starting from our core business of tagging towards more advanced robotics.

We will demonstrate how the SATO Print and Apply Systems has been widely implemented with

5 Key Benefits:

• Automate and speed up print, label and packing processes
• Different desired product position can be accurately applied with labels
• Robust system of printer, machinery and software to handle high throughput
• Advanced robotics labelling solution which extends towards carton forming and sealing solutions
• Overcome labour shortages and minimize errors with label printers, multi-axis robots, image inspection, etc.

SATO offers a wide range of customized Print & Apply solutions according to different customer needs and business processes. By working with an in-house software team and partners, we deliver state-of-the-art automated label printing and applying solution to help customers to streamline their labelling processes.

S-Robo – Smart robotics for truly automated and robust print and application

This video below shows how the S-Robo Print and Apply system delivers a high speed, automated and robust print and label function for food packets that do not need to be placed in perfect alignment. Therefore, operators/ output conveyor systems are released from stress on how to put the products on the conveyor.

LR4NX-FA – Robust design for industrial printing

LR4NX-FA is a high-performance automatic labeling system with a robust casing made of metal and
equipped with versatile functions. It can be customized for a variety of application method, mounting points and machine configurations.

Make a difference to your business with SATO Automated Print & Apply!

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