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Bringing sweet tea and juice to the market requires palletizing the cases filled with respective bottles to be palletized for transportation to retail outlets. Due to their perishable nature, they are stored in cold rooms. A customer turned to Motion Controls Robotics Inc (MCRI) from Fremont, OH, to replace an inefficient existing system, in which the vacuum cups and pumps utilized did not cope well with the average temperature in the cold room of 35°F (1.7°C). This caused vacuum cups to beco...

Photo Credit: Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU. Under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, 15 partner institutes in lightweight construction research and development (R&D) contribute to solutions along the entire value chain in manufacturing processes as well as analysis and evaluation methods. They bundle their know-how and can thus specifically address the technical as well as business and eco/environmental requirements of innovative companies. They ...