Necessity is the mother of invention, or so the proverb goes. Such was the case recently at The Langen Group, a manufacturer of automated packaging equipment in Mississauga, ON.
The company was working on a pick-and-pack line for a major American food producer. The robots were on order, and the company’s engineers began designing the end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) that would enable the robots to pick up wrapped, stacked crackers and place them into cardboard boxes.