Customer Problem A nation-leading academic medical center began a multi-year expansion project that included renovating a regional hospital. To ensure uninterrupted hospital operations, an offsite warehouse was established to receive non-emergency materials from vendors, sort them by facility, and subsequently ship them to the hospital. In addition to supporting the expansion project, the facility took […]
Customer Problem The customer was interested in automating their manual bin picking process with a robotic bin picking solution. Before automating, an operator had to use a magnet suspended overhead by a crane to move the billets. This prevented the operator from heavy lifting but did not eliminate the process of guiding the magnet onto […]
Customer Problem The customer produces plastic closures on several injection molding machines. Parts from the injection molding machines tumble into 60-pound corrugated totes that operators had to manually assemble multiple times per hour, severely decreasing operator efficiency. The process resulted in excessive floor space consumption in the production area of the totes and the components […]
Director of Service & Aftermarket, Chris Cornett, talks with Krispy Kreme’s Field Service Manager, Eamonn Griffin, about their lifecycle service partnership with Adaptec. From a phased launch plan to adapting to growth, Chris and Eamonn highlight the value of Adaptec’s service capabilities and dedicated technicians.
Customer Problem The customer wanted to increase production of the existing robotic bag palletizing system from 23 bags-per-minute (BPM) to 35-40 BPM. The additional robotic bag palletizing line will help achieve the highest possible throughput for the existing bagging and palletizing line. Conveyor modifications were also necessary to accommodate a new location for the checkweigher […]
Customer Problem As part of a relocation project to a newer and larger service center, Siewert Equipment was looking to optimize shop flow and functionality. As a distributor and service provider of pumps, process equipment, mixers, blowers, and valves for manufacturers in industrial, commercial, and municipal water markets, a new crane system was designed to […]
Customer Problem Long-time customer of Adaptec, U.S. Salt, wanted to replace an existing Lambert conventional palletizer with a robotic palletizing system. Palletizing two differently bagged products – one in plastic and the other in paper – the conventional palletizer could not efficiently run the plastic bagged product. Implementing a robotic system offers increased throughput, reliability, […]
Customer Problem The customer was manually palletizing cases of fresh chicken and sending them to a 3PL to be frozen for warehouse storage. In order to speed up the freezing process, special “egg crate style” tier sheets were stacked between all layers of all products. The sheets had to be manually removed between layers – […]
Customer Problem The customer was manually packing, labeling, sorting, and shipping more than 6,000 SKUs of different weights and sizes. They wanted to grow their market by providing customers with the correct products at a reasonable time. In order to achieve this, an automated system was needed to take the packed box, identify it, confirm […]
Customer Problem The customer was hand palletizing and stretch wrapping two different product lines: one for moist pouches and another for loose leaf. The cases were conveyed to an operator who hand-picked and placed the cases on a pallet. A tier sheet was then manually placed between layers. A pallet jack completed the pallet to […]