On a production line where human hands once placed millions of sausages into trays each Christmas season, Cranswick Plc has installed Delta robots capable of 240 picks per minute — a quiet but consequential moment in British manufacturing's long negotiation between human labor and machine precision. The deployment, integrating vision systems, servo motors, and safety controllers through a three-party collaboration, reflects a broader industry shift: automation is no longer a disruption to be debated but an architecture to be designed. Workers were not displaced but redirected, a distinction th
Cranswick deploys Rockwell robots at 240 cycles/min for pigs-in-blankets packaging
Workers previously performing manual picking were redeployed to higher-skilled tasks rather than displaced.