Flexibility meets ease of maintenance

摘要

Case packing solutions increasingly need to have a design that supports multiple product configurations and case types to suit the variety that retailers and consumers are after, while making the equipment easy to maintain for operations. For Hartz Mountain Corp., a pet products manufacturer, its recent implementation of a retail ready secondary packaging machine is delivering on both of these fronts. Since mid-December 2020, when it opened a new production line at its facility in Pleasant Plain, Ohio, Hartz Mountain has been running a new wrap around case packaging system for the line (SOMIC America). The 424 case packing system is meeting expectations with its space-saving design, performance and flexibility. "The equipment is exceeding our expectations," says Jake Wojtkiewicz, Hartz's engineering manager. "We chose the SOMIC machine due to the flexibility of the case format and the design." Another benefit of the overall solution has been the speed of implementation, added Wojtkiewicz. "From the time we uncrated the machine to entering production, it took about seven days until we were able to run full production," he says.