Integrating Automation Into Plastics Manufacturing by Adding Collaborative Robots

May 6, 2025

2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM GMT

Duration: 1 hour

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Summary

As technology evolves, manufacturers find themselves continually evaluating how to improve their processes, elevate the safety of their workforce, and adapt new systems to improve production quality, repeatability, and throughput. In today’s growing demand for advanced manufacturing processes as well as increasingly tighter labor markets, plastics manufacturers must adapt to new technologies to support growing manufacturing challenges while remaining competitive. For many, the thought of bringing in automation can be daunting – they question how their team will respond to robotics and stigma around automation, whether or not their team can support new technology, and if it’s even possible to move quickly on improvements without interrupting current production?  That’s where collaborative robotics and systems integrators come in.

Join Ryan Lillibridge, Vice President of Mission Design & Automation [missiondesignauto.com], and Brian Connor, Program Manager - Integrator & OEM- Americas from Universal Robots, as they discuss when and how to add collaborative robotics into their plastics manufacturing toolbox.

Attendees will learn:

• How employing collaborative robots can be a great first step into automation adoption.
• The competitive advantages of working with a systems integrator like Mission to evaluate your current process and support your journey into automation.
• Successful application stories of using collaborative robotics in plastics manufacturing production.