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“Falling robot prices – together with increased labour costs and rapidly improving technology – are major driving forces behind increasing investment in industrial robotics. This, along with the possibility of a Return-on- Investment sometimes as short as one year, proves that this technology needs to be embraced.” Michael McHugh, Chief Executive of Automation & Robotics Irl. . Automation & Robotics …

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Small footprint, high speed palletising cells ideally suited for high volume, high repetition product lines, in a 3 or 2 shift environment. PAK Automation has developed a unique high speed palletising cell ideally suited for the Food Processing Industry, in particular for packing and palletising chilled/frozen products. The system uses an industrial robot on a skid mount heavy duty base, …

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PAK Automation recently won a major contract with a Global Food Company who manufacture Ready Meals in a Plant in Dundalk in the Republic Of Ireland. The Project was awarded to Pak Automation Ltd to supply and install four complete systems amidst stiff competition but the small footprint of the systems as well as the highly reliable Kawasaki FD50 Palletising …

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Allowing more effective and intuitive operation, a highly functional and versatile robot controller offers high level of expansion and easier operation and maintenance. In keeping with its role of one of the leaders in industrial robot technology, Kawasaki Robotics has launched a new robot control system allowing more effective and intuitive operation of the robot. The result is the new …

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Pak Automation Ltd have recently completed a special purpose labelling system for accurately labelling punnets of strawberries and other fruit and vegetables. The customer needed a system which enabled fast changeovers and ease of set-up with the addition of being able to label punnets running back to back at up to 30 metres per minute. The applicators are stepper driven …

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Pak Automation Ltd recently completed the successful installation of a horizontal flowrapper with a difference. The equipment was supplied and installed in a Government department following a successful tender bid for the automation project. The infeed ended up being 20 metres long with the infeed peg conveyor running down the centre of 20 individual workstations. The workstations were custom designed …

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Pak Automation Ltd.  have recently completed a labeling system in which the customer required a high speed labeling solution. The system was built in stainless steel and was fitted with a Mitsubishi PLC for the system controls. A Touchscreen HMI for accessing machine parameters was chosen and utilised to display the system diagnostics and alarms. The system was fitted with …

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PAK Automation have recently completed the successful installation of a Kawasaki Six Axis Robot model FS06N. The Kawasaki Robot in this cell is carrying out a puck loading task. Three plastic vials types are handled on the system with the one gripper tool. The vials are loading into a feed elevator and fed into a vibratory bowl feeder where they …

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Pak Automation Ltd were commissioned by a multinational medical device company in the North West to provide an overprinting solution as a replacement for existing Inkjet printers. The specification required us to print directly onto the Tyvek material of a R7000 thermoformer which is a two lane machine. An Open Date Thermal printer was used because of its high resolution …

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