Contract packaging is an entirely different animal than CPGs’ and brands’ in-house packaging operations, and the industry has a unique set of needs centered around extreme variability. This comparative unpredictability makes equipment investment more complicated than it tends to be for brands, and that goes for robotics investments, too. But flexibility—and ability to be redeployed in many varied applications—just happens to be a specialty of robotics. We’ll hear from contract packager Aaron Thomas Co. on their unique suite of packaging equipment needs, and how robotics are uniquely flexible enough to fill them in ways that mechanical installations often cannot.