Passion for paper: MBO CoBo-Stack collaborative robots offer new perspective for the printing trade

A Study in Europe has application globally: The German printing industry is changing: since the advent of the internet and due to the ongoing process of digital transformation, the industry is facing increasing challenges. For some years now, the printing industry, once a pace-setter generating a turnover to rival that of the automobile industry, has been encountering strong competitive pressure and high production costs. Innovative strategies for the future are required if it is to remain capable of action: automation needs to be brought into the printing trade. Collaborative robot arms offer companies of any size a flexible technology which allows them to manufacture profitably..

“We use the MBO CoBo-Stack to process paper at our MBO folding machines. With the robot, we have doubled our cycle times and considerably reduced the physical workload for our employees. This gives them time for more demanding tasks such as quality control or preparing the next job.”

Jürgen Pipp, CEO of Jürgen Pipp Papierverarbeitung Und Versandservice E.K.

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