6 signs it's time to automate your packaging line
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As a manufacturer or distributor of food or consumer goods, you may face increasing difficulties as your business handles increasing demand. These often include operational productivity limits, labor issues, and packaging line automation, which is a great idea in your production line to eliminate them.
Determining when to automate your packaging line is not difficult, but research is needed to make a decision about where to start and what will bring your business the biggest profit.
Here are a few signs that you're ready to automate your packaging line:
1. Market and demand
Understanding your target market and anticipating potential growth ahead of time will help justify new investments in packaging machinery. Will you add new products next year? Do you anticipate large amounts of growth?
In some cases, you can justify automation due to reduced demand. If the markets you serve are expected to see reduced demand, automation can save you overall operating costs.
2. Your staff can't keep up
The workforce is often the first place to be considered when considering packaging automation. Demand is increasing and your team hardly fulfills the target of the customer. Your customers or retailers are getting excited, or in the worst case scenario, leaving you completely.
The increased demand causes overload, also causes stress in the work environment and can lead to an increase in labor insecurity and high labor migration. If you are experiencing a significant number of employees injured during production and this may be directly related to your packaging process, this is a good reason to consider your options. in automation.
An option you might consider at first might be adding shifts, but make sure you study the impact on your current processes and the manual machines being used. Additional work shifts will require your equipment to have preventive maintenance performed more frequently to ensure safety and on time. This also means downtime will need to be added to your daily, weekly or monthly amounts.
3. Labor costs and automation costs
Let's say you have a staff working on manual equipment. You have to pay their wages every hour, full payment includes social security payments, workers, unemployment insurance, etc.
In cases like these, a working machinery system can pay all its expenses in one year and help you reduce the labor costs mentioned above.
4. Waste too much
Usually when manual labor is used in packaging lines, there is an increase in material waste, regardless of how well your team is trained.
With automatic packaging lines, machines are much more accurate than humans. They can reduce or, in some cases, completely eliminate packaging waste, can significantly reduce your overall operating costs.
5. Repeated, simple operation
Is your workforce doing a lot of repetitive work that a machine can do, faster? If the answer is yes to this question, consider the task mentioned for a machine that can do this for you.
An example of eliminating repetitive, labor-intensive operations is required during the packing, pasting and pasting phase. While using blood can perform all that work.
6.Many products and long changes
When customers order, they will have the needs of different types of packaging, size and shape. When you use a manual line, it will take a lot of time to convert to non-standard size packaging, labor costs also increase. When you integrate the high-speed packaging line, you only need to install on the machine to be able to fulfill orders quickly.
We determined that the best solution for this customer is the integration of high-speed packaging lines that will help customers produce a variety of shapes and sizes of products
This not only cuts down on their product packaging time, but also significantly reduces the time it takes to change products across the line, making it an almost seamless process!
What has changed completely to move from one product to another takes no time. No staff sitting quietly for hours.
In addition, they chose a 100% electric machine. With zero pneumatic machinery, lower utility costs are added to huge savings from changing packaging lines.
Working with packaging machine experts, who have experience in helping packaging automation businesses. They can identify opportunities to improve packaging line efficiency, reduce costs and productivity you may not realize. Viet Dat Co., Ltd is ready to accompany with customers, giving customers the most effective and efficient packaging production line.
