You run a plant that puts food on tables and household goods on shelves.
That work is harder than it has ever been:
tighter labor, higher volumes, thinner margins, and the same delivery dates.
We sent you a box to say thank you, and to make one point.
Every item in it was made on a line Formic automated.
The taffy came off a Formic palletizer at Taffy Town in Salt Lake City.
The Famous Chicago Mix comes out of Garrett Brands in Chicago, stacked by a robot they never had to buy.
The coffee is roasted in Shakopee, Minnesota, where Cameron’s went from zero systems to five in a year.
None of them bought a robot. None of them hired a robotics engineer. Each one put a
Formic system on the line, kept their whole team, and moved people off the job that
was wearing them out. Here is what that looks like in numbers.
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Gourmet salt water taffy
Taffy Town
Salt Lake City, Utah · Since 1916
What Formic runsEnd-of-line palletizing
5.5MPounds of taffy stacked
279KCases handled
4,300Pallets built
“We don’t have to set up the system, we don’t have to program it, and we don’t have to maintain it.”
Jason Glade, President
What Formic runsRobotic palletizing, plus the first pilot of Formic Production Intelligence
$0Capital spent
100%Maintenance covered
1stTo pilot Production Intelligence
“I’ve bought robots for other companies, and you’re spending five, six hundred thousand dollars and another hundred thousand on install and programming.”
Jim LaRocco, Director of Manufacturing and Fulfillment
Taffy Town’s president and production manager on why they automated, how they brought
the floor along with them, and what happened when something went wrong after go-live.
Taffy Town · Salt Lake City, Utah · Palletizing
03 / Who we are
Formic is Full Service Automation. Everything included, one monthly fee.
We put robots on production lines in American factories, and we own everything that
comes with them: the equipment, the software, the install, the spare parts, the
maintenance, and the uptime. It is one fixed, all-inclusive monthly fee. No capital
expenditure. That is why a 110-year-old taffy maker and a national coffee roaster
could both start automating without opening a capital project.
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One fixed monthly fee
Equipment, software, installation, service, spare parts, and performance SLAs in a single all-inclusive monthly price. No capital expenditure, no integrator to source, and no separate service contract to negotiate.
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We own the uptime
24/7 technical support, regional field service engineers, and all preventive and corrective maintenance. Service is the whole job, so it is included, not invoiced. When a system stops, it is our problem to solve.
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One station, or the whole line
Palletizing, case erecting, case packing, case sealing, stretch wrapping, and machine tending. Start where the strain is worst and add stations as the case proves itself.
Case erectingCase packingCase sealingPalletizingStretch wrapping
No deck, no discovery gauntlet. Tell us what the end of your line looks like and we
will tell you what we would automate first, what it would run, and what it would cost
per month. If there is nothing worth automating on your floor, we will say so.
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In the meantime, the customer stories are the fastest way to see what this looks like in plants like yours.
You keep America fed. We’ll do the heavy lifting.
Palletizing, case packing, stretch wrapping, and machine tending, on one all-inclusive
monthly fee with no capital request. Start with one station and one conversation.