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into stock, a clamp truck will put it onto a Harmax dolly, which is inserted right into the single facer. “Since we are now a highly automated plant, we were able to ‘reposition’ 15 forklift drivers to other jobs in the plant,” says Bob Cohen. “We didn’t reduce headcount, we just made headcount more productive.” In fact, from the corrugator to the racking system to
Because it now has an automatic roll delivery and a butt roll return system that takes rolls from the corrugator back to the roll storage area and a fully automatic material handling system – WSA USA provided all the infeed con- veyor throughout the plant, all the outfeed conveyor is by
Dücker –and an iFAS Smart Factory Automation System, no forklifts are needed between the corrugator and con- verting machines. The only operational fork trucks in the plant are in the shipping area. After 110-inch rolls are put No fork lifts are needed to move containerboard from the Fos- ber corrugator to Acme Corrugated’s converting machines.
converting, there is virtually no human intervention. There is also no strapping or touching uniform bundles of con- tainerboard moving through Acme’s newly configured Orders are transported throughout Acme Corrugated’s plant with virtually no human intervention.
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