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2012 Equipment and Packaging Trends at Nercon Eng. & Mfg., Inc.

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Page 1: Top 7 Conveyor Equipment and Design Trends

2012 Equipment and Packaging Trends at Nercon Eng. & Mfg., Inc.

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Always Increase Capacity

Just about every single conveyor system coming through our doors directly relates to increased capacity manufacturing goals. Even incremental increases in production capacity have delivered a fast ROI (return on investment) on new systems for high-volume consumer goods manufacturing customers.

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This container lid manufacturer required 300 lids per minute to meet big box retail market demand for infant formula.

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The Flexibility is in the Package

Nercon continues to see major system projects that are specially designed to handle new flexible packaging.

According to AMPAC, a global packaging company, one truck load of pouches equals 25 truck loads of cans. Pouches also use 75% less energy to produce than cans.

For more information, visit Pouch handling Pouches reduce the amount of source materials to make cans by 25 to 1.

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What you See is What you Get

Nercon is experiencing increasing requests for visual inspection on wear components.

The modified cover allows visual inspection of the drive without removing it.

A simple measurement guide is attached to the conveyor frame that allows maintenance personnel to quickly determine when the chain needs to be replaced.

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Preferred Components are a WIN-WIN

Nercon’s engineering and management strategists have developed a preferred component program that increases engineering efficiencies and deliveries. When possible, the use of preferred frames and components is a win for customers who benefit from reduced purchased costs and faster turnaround time, and a win for Nercon to streamline production of repeatable and common assemblies.

Floor assembly of system using preferred components: Preferred frames are the same quality as Nercon’s custom engineering components. Preferred items are determined by commonality, repeatability and value.

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Application by Area or Room

An increasing number of customers are leveraging the purchase cost of conveyors by selecting the construction level required by the application or environment.

For example, a significant cost savings can be achieved by locating controls panels in dry environments.

Manufacturing plants can have environments from dry, to caustic wash-down to cold room in one location. Components required for extreme environments are often higher purchase cost items.

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Increasing Changeover Efficiencies

A food or consumer goods manufacturer who can shave minutes off every changeover immediately correlates to a competitive bottom line. Nercon is seeing a rise in tool-less and adjustable brackets as well as both pneumatic and electric actuated automatic rail systems.

Read our white paper on Packaging Line Changeover

This guide rail system features a hand wheel and digital counter that provides adjustment of all the lanes from one side of the conveyor system.

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The need for Sanitation Speed

Food processing customers are focusing on conveyor equipment designs that increase sanitation efficiencies that often go beyond the requirements of government compliance.

Watch Sanitary Conveyor Video

Nercon’s all-welded tube frame sanitary level III conveyor design is manufactured for COP (clean out-of place) and extreme caustic wash-down procedures.

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