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Reasons to Automate Your Packaging

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Save money by lowering your operational costs:   Automated packing systems are designed to optimize your packing process, so you can reduce costs associated with materials, productivity, transport, and labor. Drastically improve your pack line productivity: Packaging automation can drastically improve your pack line productivity and throughput. Dispatch more packs per hour to cope with demand, and reassign labor to key tasks. Use less packaging and produce less carbon: Automating packing ensures the right size pack and the right amount of material every time, eliminating waste. You can deliver more products with fewer vehicles too – lowering your carbon emissions. Optimize your storage space and transport: Using packaging machinery can free up valuable space in your warehouse by eliminating the need to store excess packaging SKUs. Plus, automation helps optimize the size of your packs, so you can get more packages onto a delivery truck, controlling costs and fuel use. En...

Time to Automate your Packing Area

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  You’ve decided you need to reduce your labor costs and add a case packing machine. But the more suppliers you look at, the more they all seem to look the same. To help you narrow your list of companies, we offer up this list of things that potential machine suppliers should be able to do.   1) Provide customized machine options when you need them. Choosing a supplier that can customize their case packing machines to meet your specifications is a sure sign that they have a team of designers and engineers on-site allowing them to constantly innovate. We don’t expect a supplier to customize every option you need, but even the ability to run it past their engineering or R&D team is telling. If you ask for a customized option and all you get is silence, it’s likely they’re not designing, engineering and building their own machines. You want to make sure you are choosing a proactive supplier that is motivated to help you reach your goals and is driven to innovate. 2) Del...