BINDERY matters

"But, for its size, there was still quite a bit of equipment on display," he contends. "In fact, one guy commented to me that if he'd known beforehand just how good it really was, he would have brought more people from his shop with him."

This Installation Literally Is One For the Books

YORK, PA—The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group wanted to automate the process of removing stacks of unfinished books from one machine and placing them onto a pallet. The existing process required two workers on each of three shifts at a cost of $120,000 annually. While robotic palletizing is becoming commonplace, designing an end-effector to complete the process was more complicated.