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Mjolkursamsalan Akureyri
In short
Icelandic dairy Mjolkursamsalan Akureyri was looking to automate some of the monotonous work in connection with planned modifications to their cream cheese production line. Several years of monotonous work have been saved after deploying two UR5 robots in its production of milk products.
Mjolkursamsalan Akureyri
Industry Food and Beverage
Country Europe
Number of Employees 50-100
Cobots used UR5
The solution
The first UR5 robot was installed in connection with modifications to the dairy’s cream cheese production line in 2011. The robot arm lifts four packs of cream cheese from a conveyor belt and places them in a plastic tray.
Due to a high level of satisfaction with the first robot arm, a second UR5 was added in 2012. This robot takes the filled plastic trays and stacks them on a pallet – and relieves the dairy workers from even more monotonous work.
“UR robots are so simple to use and not having to build a fence around them is a big plus. We have already saved three man-years of monotonous work thanks to our two UR5s”, says Sigurdur Runar Fridjonsson, Director at the Akureyri dairy.
Sigurdur Runar Fridjonsson, Director at the Akureyri dairyUR robots are so simple to use and not having to build a fence around them is a big plus. We have already saved three man-years of monotonous work thanks to our two UR5s
Automation challenges solved:
Automating repetitive tasks Removing several years of manual work
Key value drivers:
Easy programming Flexible deployment Fast payback
Tasks solved by collaborative robots:
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