Case story high speed palletising0 pages

Case story
High speed palletising solutions for snacks
Veurne Snack Foods is
Belgium’s largest snack
foods manufacturer and is
part of the Pepsico group. In a
continuous 24 hour production process
Veurne Snack Foods manufacture many tons of
Europe’s leading snack brands like Lays, Doritos
and Cheerios, in a huge variety of flavours
across many production lines.
Together with
the engineers of
VSF, CSi produced
a palletising system
comprising of three C5000 high speed
palletisers installed in three phases. The result is
a dramatic increase in production capacity and
flexibility. In the first phase two existing lines were
connected to newly constructed accumulation
conveyors and a 14 lane buffer deck, which in
turn are connected to a newly installed C5000
palletising maching with double case infeed.
Benefits:
•t Higher production speedst
•t High production flexibility over
t increased product varietyt
•t Reduction in production operatives
•t Higher system reliability
•t Guaranteed system performance
Key data:
•t Industry: snack foods
•t Country: Belgium
•t Palletising system
•t 3 C5000 high speed palletisers
t (69 cases per min. per machine)
•t 42 accumulation lines connected to
t various production lines
•t 240 pallets per hour
This worked in theory, but it was a different story
in practice. The extremely light and thin sided
cases caused major technical problems and were
frequently damaged during accumulation due
to excessive pressure being applied. Moreover
this resulted in case counting errors leading to
disruptions in production.
Fine adjustment of the accumulation conveyors
and careful monitoring during these adjustments
finally solved this problem.