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10 How labour shortages are affecting the logistics sector and why automation is the solution


 Spotlight 12 Choose your ways to lead in sustainable manufacturing


 Event: MVC 2022 14 MVC 2022 show preview


16 SpecimONE is revolutionising the hyperspectral sorting business


20 Pick-and-place robotic vision system uses software recipes to speed up application development


14 22 Machine vision: can it ever be “plug and play”?  Machine Vision


24 Product quality testing with Scanning Acoustic Microscopy


26 Accessing rapid and flexible vision inspection solutions  Robotics


30 Double roll cage robots promise to transform UK grocery logistics


32 Robots in the driving seat 4 March 2022 | Automation automationmagazine.co.uk


 News


06 Chanel turns to sustainable packaging for its new beauty range


06 A centralised platform was created to manage visual services required by IoT and AI devices


07 ABB Column: Why it pays to fall in love with robots 07 Melexis gives robots a sense of touch


08 Reducing carbon emissions in food packaging with transformer technology


08 Caja Robotics and Bastian Solutions join forces to deliver robotic systems to US fulfilment centres


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