Cranswick deploys Rockwell delta robots at 240 picks per min

Cranswick, one of Britain's largest premium food manufacturers, has commissioned a fully automated robotic pick-and-place system powered by Rockwell Automation's Allen-Bradley hardware and autonox delta robots to handle end-of-line sausage packaging at 240 cycles per minute. The deployment, delivered by CWM Automation, removes a.

The project lands as UK food manufacturers face mounting pressure to find automation ROI amid ongoing labor constraints and rising production targets. This story was produced through MarketScale.

What Happened

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• The deployment, announced by Rockwell Automation via PR Newswire in June 2026, is built around autonox delta robots running on Allen-Bradley motion and safety hardware, and was delivered by CWM Automation, a Rockwell Automation.

• Automation Magazine's coverage of the ADI and AMD robotics developer platform, published in August 2026, makes the same argument: developers building next-generation robotic systems need hardware that fuses sensing and control at the edge.

• Separately, Automation Magazine's August 2026 reporting on physical AI in industrial robotics points to a category of deployments where robots must interpret physical context, not just execute pre-programmed paths.

Key Details

Cranswick's new autonox delta robot system executes 240 pick-and-place cycles per minute on its pigs-in-blankets packaging line, a throughput rate that manual labor cannot match at scale. Allen-Bradley Kinetix VP servo motors and a GuardLogix 5380 safety controller handle precision detection and.

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Workers displaced from the manual packaging stage are being redeployed to more skilled roles on other production lines, a model other food manufacturers can replicate to address labor productivity gaps. Create a free MarketScale workspace and get your company's expertise featured across.

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