Industry
Consumer goods
Flexible production and handling concepts for changing product requirements.
Production context
Engineering begins with operating reality.
In consumer goods, product variety and promotional cycles keep changing the production plan; the same line has to run different products, pack sizes and case configurations at short intervals. The engineering priority is therefore not top speed on one product but flexibility across the product family and predictable changeover times.
A typical line in this industry
From infeed to dispatch, one supplier.
Each station links to the related product family; stations are configured per project.
Engineering priorities
- Handling and gripping designed to flex across the product family
- Predictable, operator-independent format changeovers
- Managing variable case and pallet configurations
- Line balancing for seasonal capacity swings
- Shortening time-to-line for new products
Relevant solution areas