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Software saves glassmaker's time

The Glass Group Inc. uses software to analyze and organize its protective packaging options for 9귔 different configurations.

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The Glass Group Inc.’s latest application for CAPE Systems’ software will permit the glass manufacturer to save even more time. And that, according to GGI packaging engineer John Camp, is an incredible benefit.

Millville, NJ-based GGI’s bottles are used in the cosmetics, food, specialty, and pharmaceutical markets. Prior to 1999, the company developed designs for pallet loads manually using word processing programs, noting case locations on pallets with simple ‘X’ marks. It was a painstaking task. The CAPE software permitted a downsizing of the department from five employees to two.

GGI currently runs three licenses of the Cape Pack V2.02 software for all packaging and pallet design at its Millville Glass Production facility. The software generates loading patterns for pallet loads of glass bottles and jars and produces reports. The software accommodates cases, trays, cartons, shrink films, tier sheets, caps, everything, Camp says. In total, the software can help generate analyses of 9귔 different items in the GGI’s packaging mix.

It permits GGI to design packaging for the safe transport of glass containers to its customers, according to Camp. “Since we know our bottle production limitations, we can custom design our packaging around the machinery available,” says Camp. “The software allows us to analyze everything including gross weight, bottle placement, and case length, width, and height. This is for everything from manufacturing through final decorated bottles.”

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