Optimizing pallet wrapping efficiencies

Capturing data and making it actionable is at the heart of most controls, Information Technology, and integrated automation initiatives out there today.

Capturing data and making it actionable is at the heart of most controls, Information Technology, and integrated automation initiatives out there today.

Canadian bottled water marketer Ice River Springs of Feversham, Ontario, has hit upon a great method for monitoring the performance of its stretch-wrapping machines and sharing the data in real time with whomever needs to see it. It’s called MUST, for Materials Usage Standard Tracking, and it was invented and patented by Atlantic Packaging. Since implementing it in all nine of its bottling facilities, the firm has seen a system-wide film savings of nearly 30%.

It’s all about eliminating the unknown in wrapping costs. It involves a main monitor installed to the exterior of the stretch wrapper controls cabinet that allows plant personnel to view stretch-wrapping operations data in real time as pallets are being wrapped. All of this data is sent via wireless transmitter signal to the radio receiver in the main panel.

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