This document discusses the benefits of automating the case sealing process. It notes that automating can save thousands per year through increased throughput, reduced costs, and helping companies remain competitive. Some key benefits highlighted include material savings, labor savings, increased safety, and reduced damage and theft. The document provides questions to consider when determining if automating is right and describes the main types of automated case sealers available.
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1. AUTOMATED CASE SEALERS
Automating the Case Sealing Process Can Save Thousands
Every Year.
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CASE SEALERS
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With damage rates during shipping around the 10% mark, it’s time to reconsider the best
way to package products to protect items from the damage of any major shipping provider.
• Increased throughput with reduced costs.
• Imports arrive produced for much less.
• Companies are turning to new and innovative ways to make sure that they are competitive.
THE CHOICE TO AUTOMATE
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Consider the following when you start the process of determining if automating is right for your facility.
1. How many boxes are you sealing and how many do you foresee sealing?
2. How are you currently sealing and how many people does it take?
3. What types of boxes are sealing? Are they all uniform shapes or do they change frequently? Are they fragile? Are they shaped
irregularly? Are they light or heavy?
4. Could you improve throughput and increase production with automating the sealing process?
5. Are you experiencing shipping damages or theft? If so, do you know what is causing the damage or why it is easy for theft to
occur?
THE TOP 5 QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
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There are four main kinds of machines from which to choose:
• Uniform Semi-Automatic Case Sealers
• Random Semi-Automatic Case Sealers
• Uniform Automatic Case Sealers
• Random Automatic Case Sealers
WHAT KIND OF CASE SEALER DO YOU NEED?
Hand taping can be time-consuming and wasteful, resulting in poorly
presented boxes and seals that must be redone multiple times.
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1. Increase your output.
2. Eliminate double taping and reduce tape usage.
3. Eliminate uneven tape lengths and positions.
4. Enhance packaging.
5. Increase product safety.
6. Eliminate product damage.
7. Reduce employee injuries and downtime.
8. Reduce worker’s compensation claims and premiums.
8 REASONS TO INSTALL CASE SEALERS
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INCREASED THROUGHPUT
Doing more with less is the mantra of the new American workplace.
With a case sealer at the end of your line that is sealing faster than
manual sealing rates, you’re automatically doing more with less.
Faster sealing rates mean less production time and higher production output on a daily basis.
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Tape is the most common type of closure used in shipping.
Think back: nearly 1 in 10 boxes that is shipped is damaged.
According to UPS, improper tape application is the leading cause of closure failure on a shipped box.
Inconsistently sealed boxes create weak seals, leading to potential theft, damage, or product contamination.
DAMAGE REDUCTION
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MATERIAL SAVINGS
Remember: on average, machine tape is 30% less expensive
than hand tape. There’s a huge savings factor right there, and
that’s before you consider the rest of the savings.
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Even something as small as a 10% reduction in labor can help to offer significant savings in the long run.
Now, take into account:
• human inconsistency
• inevitable over usage of materials
• propensity for damage
LABOR SAVINGS
The cost of labor steadily increases at a rate of 2% annually.
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Non-fatal workplace injuries related to musculoskeletal disorders cost businesses more
than $21 billion every year and account for over 40% of total cost burdens to business.
SAFETY & ERGONOMICS
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Increased Throughput
If you’re moving product faster than you’ve got boxes to pack them in, then you’ve bottlenecked your production and you’re losing
money every second that you’re not pushing product out.
Damage and Theft Reduction
Machine sealed boxes are more securely sealed, significantly reducing costly product damage resulting from sloppily assembled
and sealed cases. And if you’ve got people sealing boxes, you’re more likely than not going to see poor adhesion rates.
Material Savings
Machines hold larger tape rolls, meaning that they will run out less often and will have less waste between roll changes.
Labor Savings
Since many case sealers need either minimal or no human interaction to run, decreasing the amount of human contact with the
sealing process can either free employees to redirect their attention to other tasks or to reduce workforce numbers.
Safety and Ergonomics
Using a case sealer ensures ergonomically correct working conditions; this allows workers to experience far less physically
intensive strains, including lifting, reaching, bending, twisting, and gripping.
AUTOMATION SAVES MONEY
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