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Maintaining packaging efficiency is vital in meeting cost and productivity challenges for today’s manufacturers. One of the main areas where productivity can face challenges is during the accumulation process of manufacturing. Sometimes there is downtime in the manufacturing process, for example, leading to an accumulation of products that could become damaged during the waiting process. This is where low line pressure accumulation conveyors are especially useful, as the gentle movements of the products helps to protect the integrity of your products.

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W&M Manufacturing, a part of the Carrera Manufacturing group, has strategically grown to provide their customers a single-source for molding, finishing and coating needs for plastic products from individual to finished components.

Customer Challenge
W&M is a premier leader in the automotive and lighting industries, specializing in both lenses and reflectors. To help strategically grow this side of the business, they sought Shuttleworth’s expertise to assist in a solution designed to provide gentle transportation of freshly molded headlight lenses throughout both a cleanroom 100 and cleanroom 1000 coating and curing process. [Read more…] about Cleanroom Conveyor System Allows for Efficient Coating and Curing of Headlight Lenses

It’s a new year – and, as a manufacturer, that means its time to reassess your product handling equipment and its functionality to ensure all are operating at peak performance. Many equipment suppliers offer Wellness Checks as a preventative maintenance offering to examine all aspects of your automated system and make recommendations based on findings. Many work within the parameters to ensure little downtime to conduct the check.  The visit typically includes the following: [Read more…] about Welcome 2019 with a Wellness Check for your conveyor system

Nowhere in the packaging process is the handling of the product more susceptible to damage than in the wrapper infeed cycle, resulting in high defect rates, lessened throughput and increased production costs. This is common particularly with shrink wrapping where mis-wraps can easily occur, jamming the line. When shrink coverage does not completely cover the product, it can go unnoticed until later when the product has spoiled due to exposure. Improper sealing is primarily caused by poor infeed and misregistration. [Read more…] about Shuttleworth’s Smartfeed – Optimized Wrapper Infeed

Many conveyors used in filling and packaging lines enable the adaption of product control devices, such
as product stops, pushers and clamps that can be used to modify the flow of conveyed products. Most
conveyors bring these devices in from the side or even over the top, such as would be found on belt
conveyors, plastic link conveyors or table-top chain conveyors. Side-mounted devices are limited in
their flexibility to control product flow because of their side-only mounting locations, and top-mounted
devices are considered even less desirable by manufacturers because of safety and product
contamination concerns. [Read more…] about Increased Flexibility and Precision with Product Control Devices