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KP Foods Plant at Stockton-on-Tees is a manufacturer of Potato Crisp snack foods. The end of line process involved a manual Palletising process of the boxes of Crisps. This needed a high number of personnel over 3 shifts operating 24/7.
KP wanted to significantly reduce the labour content and re-deploy labour on to higher value added processes, reduce the floor space needed to perform the Palletising process and improve reliability of throughput. The output of the Read more ...

To destack and sort dirty empty containers and convey them to the container washing machine. After cleaning, the empty containers are transported to a type- and size-specific buffer. The empty containers are conveyed to the production system as needed.

To place the plastic containers filled with packaged portions of cheese into an automated container storage facility. From this container storage facility the product is manually commissioned by ergonomic means and conveyed to the shipping department.

To design a cleaning system for containers and pallets, whose washing capacity can be increased to 4 times its previous volume.

To destack and sort dirty empty containers and transport them to the container washing machine. After cleaning, the empty containers are transported to type- and size-specific buffers. The empty containers are transported to the production lines as needed. The new system had to replace the old system while it was still in operation.

The Swiss post initiated a project in 2005 named "REMA" (reengineering mail processing). The project was about the complete automation of the letter mail in three mail distribution centers These three distribution centers will now take over the work of the current 16 sub centers. The targeted degree of automation in these letter distribution centers is unique worldwide and will serve as a standard for other post services far into the future.

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A major manufacturer of ice cream cones was planning a plant expansion, including the addition of a large warehouse space and wished to centrally build homogeneous pallets of products received at random from multiple production line ovens in this new space.

They had 8 manual palletizing points throughout the plant located near the main cone production and packaging areas and wanted to automatically feed all cased products from those multiple areas via conveyor to Read more ...