Conveyance options to move your containers
Much credit is given in designing a line to the larger pieces of the operation – your depalletizers or palletizers or direct-to-container digital printers. These Cap-Ex items certainly are splashier and more of what draws the eye’s attention when viewing a layout, but just like in our bodies, a heart is no more than a fancy pump without the arteries and veins to feed and fuel it. On a packaging line, the conveyance and accumulation that surround these large pieces of equipment are integral in keeping a line optimized for speed, agility and maximum uptime.
All conveyors are built to customer specific elevation/discharge heights, and are typically paired with depalletizing and palletizing equipment, so when selecting the right canning line understanding speed requirements is paramount. The top two questions we always ask are, “What is the speed you need to achieve?” and “Will you be doing a lot of start/stop or do you hope to continuously feed?” The answer to these questions will determine which depalletizer you need and what conveyance options are necessary to meet those speeds.
Here at Ska Fabricating, we take great pride in the work that our engineering team does to design lines that take our customers’ products to market and change the way they operate to ensure they are able to scale at the rate they imagine for their business. Here are some examples from high, medium and low throughput systems that illustrate the importance of speed in conjunction with proper conveyance and how this alignment can impact a line.