Packaging is often the first aspect of the consumer experience, which is why the highest product packaging quality is essential for your business. Automated packaging guarantees the quality of your packaging remains consistent. The benefits of packaging automation outweigh any upfront costs, including quality control, increased productivity, employee safety, and decreased labor costs.
Quality Control
Adding packaging line automation to your business allows for consistent high-quality packaging. Machines like automatic stretch wrapping machines and shrink wrap machines, automatic filling machines, automated bagging systems can repeatedly package products precisely without error.
The improvement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has allowed for quality issues to be detected in real-time, maintain high accuracy of visual inspections, and is able to identify root causes of quality issues.
Productivity
Productivity can be increased through packaging automation. An automated bagging machine has the capability to bag items more safely and faster than the average employee.
AI technology can increase productivity by predicting maintenance issues in order to minimize unplanned breakdowns, trigger an alert when it recognizes patterns of imperfection, which overall reduces waste due to breakdowns.
Furthermore, the improvement of AI technology helps analyze sensor data. Extracting patterns and identifying opportunities from raw data, monitoring operational conditions while also allowing for adjustments to be made for optimal production, plus analyzing the production cycle and identifying which factors influence output, are some of the most prominent benefits of this AI technology.
Employee Safety
Automating your packaging system can allow for a safer work environment and improve ergonomics for your employees. Through automation, your staff can control the packaging process from a distance rather than on the floor, where most accidents occur.
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), sometimes called ergonomic injuries are some of the most common in the industry. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, these injuries account for one-third of all workplace injuries and typically require more than a week of recovery time. Packaging automation naturally decreases employee risk by reducing worker injury risk and increasing productivity.
Decreased Labor Costs
Many industries are facing record unemployment rates in the U.S. while consumer demand continues to grow, and the packaging industry is not immune to the side effects. While labor costs rise, there is a solution in packaging automation.
The upfront cost of an automatic machine is an investment, although the advantages are numerous. An automatic stretch wrapping machine, for example, can reduce costs by increasing the film’s tensile strength and reducing the overall cost of film, as well as minimizing the risk of potential mistakes.
Automated Packaging From OPC Direct
Overall packaging line automation can offer significant benefits, including quality control, increase productivity, employee safety, and decreased labor costs. These systems translate into increased profitability in the long run. If your business can take advantage of automatic packaging machine technology there are many options. At OPC Direct we offer industry-leading auto packaging machinery, automatic stretch wrapping machines and shrink wrap machines, automatic filling machines, automated bagging systems, and more.
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