If your manufacturing or packaging operation still depends on manual material or parts handling operations, you can reap immediate benefits from a type of automation based on long-travel Cartesian robots with custom end-of-arm tooling and advanced sensing capabilities.

These Cartesian robots — which can support a variety of machines and are built around two or more coordinated linear positioning stages — may not be the first thing that springs to mind when it comes to automation. Instead, there’s a natural tendency to equate robots with 6-axis, articulated-arm models. Yet in applications requiring a robot to tend multiple machines, reach long lengths or perform simple, repetitive operations, ignoring the benefits of a long-travel Cartesian system can be a costly mistake. Learn why in our white paper.