Partnership
Septimatech is an SME in Waterloo, ON with 60 staff and a 26,000 sq. ft. facility. Septimatech designs and manufactures customized container changeover technology for consumer goods packaging, specializing in increasing productivity and reducing downtime.
Challenge
- Currently, modular, multi-lane packaging line systems rely mainly on manual reconfiguration.
- Automation and robotics technology companies tend to specialize in single areas, such as software, mobile platforms or robotic arms.
- Septimatech approached RoboHub because they are uniquely able to integrate these technologies into a specific application (i.e., consumer goods package handling and changeover).
Solution
- The project is currently in the early R&D stage.
- Septimatech and RoboHub are developing a automated robotic technology to showcase at the 2019 PACK Expo in Las Vegas, which will target major retailers and manufacturers of consumer goods (e.g., Loblaws, Publix, Kroeger, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, etc.).


Impact
- This collaborative project is a direct result of Septimatech’s attendance at the Open House held by Waterloo AMC on April 23, 2019, and through Septimatech’s relationship with Waterloo’s MBET program.
- The integration of autonomous robotic technology into consumer packaged goods assembly lines is thought to be the first of its kind in Ontario, and possibly in Canada.
- The project is anticipated to grow and lead to continued collaboration between Waterloo and Septimatech.