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REDUCE
DAMAGE * WASTE
EMISSIONS * COST
TOTE MANAGEMENT
FOR YOUR BAKERY
PACKAGING LINES
Servo-driven systems streamline operations and can even identify
broken baskets to improve worker safety.
Rexfab
baskets have answered the demands of increased truck loading
and reduced the amount of empty space in trucks.
Moreover, he added, four-wheeled dollies have replaced the
need for hand trucks and eliminated safety concerns about
maneuvering a 200-lb or heavier stack of baskets.
Apex Motion Control provides a system that stacks up to
12 trays a minute with 500-lb stack capacity. It also offers easytool
changeover of less than 1 minute and safety light curtains.
" This system was specifically designed for bakeries that deliver
daily products to chain restaurants or c-stores where order
and product quantity varies, " Mr. Riis said. " With the integrated
barcode scanner, drivers no longer need to sort through
the baskets once they are set up for delivery. "
Rexfab seeks labor reduction with its system that can run
various baskets of different sizes with the flip of a button.
" Our solution is forming a pattern, then positively driving
those products into a basket that has been previously lifted, "
explained Patrice Painchaud, vice president of sales and marketing,
Rexfab. " You have a drop gate with compression from
all four sides that will drive one or two layers of packaged products
with cardboard in the middle to the basket beneath. "
Typically, DSD baskets feature a merchandising window so
that route drivers and consumers can see the product in the
basket. Rexfab's servo-driven de-nester comes with lasers to
position the merchandising windows in the same direction.
Mr. Keane pointed out that more robust basket designs
such as thicker side walls, greater clearances between baskets
and eliminating weak elements allow for greater automation.
Problems occur when baskets get damaged, causing jams and
safety issues during the stacking process.
" As I have been known to say: 'A basket is not a bad basket
until it causes a problem,' which is normally when it is on the
bottom third of a stack, " Mr. Keane noted. " It may go through
hundreds or thousands of cycles and never be on the bottom
third of a stack. But when it does - that stack can be signifiwww.harpak-ulma.com
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