Hand taping still works for a New Zealand business that closes a modest number of cartons each day. It becomes a problem when the rest of the line has sped up and the end of the line has not. Filled cartons sit on a bench, a second person gets pulled off another job to keep…
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A carton that has just been sealed should not sit on a bench waiting for someone to pick it up. Neither should a shrink-wrapped bundle, a labelled bottle or a stack of flat packs. When the machine finishes and the next step is still a pair of hands, the line is only as fast as…
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A sauce bottle leaving the line with the brand sitting two millimetres off-centre. A carton that needs a second pass because the barcode will not scan. Two people still peeling and placing labels at the end of the shift while the filler sits idle. If any of that is happening on your floor, the labelling…
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Pallets leaving the warehouse with loose film. Stock shifting halfway through a trip. A wrap job that pulled three staff off the floor for ten minutes when it should have taken two. If any of that sounds familiar, you already know what manual pallet wrapping really costs. It’s not just the film you’re going through.…
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