Place fragile chocolate/yogurt-coated confections into trays or variety/gift assortments

Cibo Vita produces chocolate- and yogurt-coated nuts, pretzels, and confectionery items, and offers coating as a value-added service. A genuinely contact-rich task is arranging these brittle, coated pieces into compartmented trays, gift tins, or multi-item variety packs without cracking the coating, leaving pressure marks/fingerprints, or fracturing the piece. This is a presentation-sensitive, end-of-line placement step where appearance is part of the product value, often handled manually. It is difficult for a robot because the coating is thin and brittle, the underlying piece can crumble, and acceptable grip force is narrow — too little and the piece slips, too much and the coating shatters or smears. No task-specific throughput numbers were published. We identified this through our own research; we have not confirmed the specifics with the customer directly. This page is our researched read — a starting point for that conversation.