Today’s food industry landscape is increasingly characterized by the integral role of automation, which enables food manufacturers to improve production at nearly every step of the process. In the packaging sector, pick-and-place solutions have become the de facto standard for efficient and safe handling at high output rates. Syntegon’s new IDH (Intelligent Direct Handling) pick-and-place system uses advanced robotics to do just that for the most delicate products: from cookies to crackers of all shapes and sizes, the IDH ensures that crackers won’t crack before they are meant to – when they are consumed