Several producers of nails, screws, bolts, nuts and similar products pack many different products into many different packings during a production day. Every time the product or packing are changed the equipment must be adjusted. A manual adjustment or changeover is time-consuming and consequently expensive.
Therefore it is important to make the process of changing as easy and short as possible so the production time is utilized to its maximum. This is done by automating the changeovers in the entire weighing and packaging process, and the producer obtains considerable advantages: - saves time - saves money - reduces the risk of errors - improves working conditions - ensures cost-efficient short runs
Automation through the whole line Almost all parts of a weighing and packaging system can be prepared for automatic changeover. The filling tools and conveyors/guide rails as well as the packaging machinery (carton erector and closer) are readjusted according to size and type of carton boxes by a fully automatic electronic process. The same goes for the palletizing patterns. The product infeed system is automatically adapted to the type and size of product. Changeover of labelling, quality and end-of-run procedures can be completely automated as well.
The most profitable solution If you have many changeovers per shift in your production, you should always consider the fully automatic solution, as it generally turns out to be the most profitable over time. Automatic changeover is faster and more accurate than what even a skilled operator can achieve manually, but the most important point is that automatic changeover frees up the operator to do something else at the same time as the changeover happens.
