Well, our robots are in and have been accepted by us. It was a project we started in house, but our employee, the Plant Engineer got in over his head, so we needed outside help. I wish I had a video to show y'all, but we were so busy dialing it all in, I don't have one yet. But compared to 6 people packaging and 2 people placing labels, this is so freakin awesome.
So here's some pix of the install. Disregard the first 4 or so pix of the metal detector conveyors - those were posted for a vendor for viewing some issues.
The 6 axis places the labels in the pockets formed by the Multivac and the delta picker places the summer sausages in the pockets.
The label robot has already saved us a ton since the labels are perfectly placed every time.
The delta eliminates 7 people each shift. We run non stop 3 shifts from about April through November.
This is a great investment!
We did not terminate any of our employees, we simply will not hire 18 temps next year. The difference is we'll assign one of our people as the line monitor, just watching the bots and keeping the labels supplied.
Hopefully, in 13-14, we'll get case packing bots in!
I'll post videos when we run it again. Probably in Feb when we have all the improvements in place.
http://s4.beta.photobucket.com/user/waybomb/library/Robots
So here's some pix of the install. Disregard the first 4 or so pix of the metal detector conveyors - those were posted for a vendor for viewing some issues.
The 6 axis places the labels in the pockets formed by the Multivac and the delta picker places the summer sausages in the pockets.
The label robot has already saved us a ton since the labels are perfectly placed every time.
The delta eliminates 7 people each shift. We run non stop 3 shifts from about April through November.
This is a great investment!
We did not terminate any of our employees, we simply will not hire 18 temps next year. The difference is we'll assign one of our people as the line monitor, just watching the bots and keeping the labels supplied.
Hopefully, in 13-14, we'll get case packing bots in!
I'll post videos when we run it again. Probably in Feb when we have all the improvements in place.
http://s4.beta.photobucket.com/user/waybomb/library/Robots