Formic, a Full Service robotics provider for U.S. manufacturers, has officially announced a series of major milestones in relation to its pursuit of accelerating automation adoption across the country.

According to certain reports, the company’s specialized fleet of robots has now surpassed 400,000 production hours, a number which is markedly equivalent of more than 8 months of human labor delivered every single business day. More on the same would reveal how Formic is currently on track to exceed 500,000 hours by year-end. This it will achieve on the back of what would be the largest independent robot fleet across U.S.

Formic also took this opportunity to unveil the initial details of upcoming tech innovations.

“We want Full Service Automation to be an easy button for manufacturers facing labor shortages and production bottlenecks,” said Danijel Lolic, VP of Product at Formic. “That’s why we’re expanding our automation offerings beyond palletizing into case packing, floor sweeping, production intelligence, and more R&D that addresses critical labor shortages across the facility.”

 Talk about the company’s innovations on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the Top Load Case Packer, which happens to be a fully supported solution for end-of-line rigid package case packing. You see, the stated case packers bestow upon manufacturers a rather distinctive way to automate one of the most labor-intensive and ergonomically challenging jobs on the production floor.

Next up, we have a lineup of floor cleaning robots coming into play. These robots, purpose-built to thrive in industrial environments, arrive on the scene bearing an ability to handle everything from dust, powders, and fallen product, to trash, broken pallets, and other debris as large as 8″ wide and 2.5″ in diameter.

Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the availability of Formic Production Intelligence (FPI) platform. This one is essentially a cloud-based production optimization platform, designed to provide real-time visibility into performance data across production lines, all for the purpose of enabling faster decision-making, higher throughput, and improved operational alignment.

Complementing that would be Formic’s Full Service Automation model, which is capable of delivering the equipment and systems to do the neccesary job, the service and parts to keep it running, as well as the technology and software to measure real-time productivity and optimize performance. Hence, assuming a business needs change, customers can swap systems mid-contract to match new capacity requirements, thus ensuring brand of automation that works on every single occasion.

In case this wasn’t enough, then we also ought to acknowledge how the model doesn’t ask for any capital investment whatsoever.

“Formic was founded to unlock more manufacturing capacity by making automation easier to implement,” said Saman Farid, CEO of Formic. “American industry has struggled with robot adoption, but our Full Service Automation model makes it easier to deploy, manage, and scale automation without the traditional barriers of cost or expertise. With our new offerings, we’re opening the door for even more businesses to automate confidently and see results immediately.”