DRIVING OUT PACKAGING PROBLEMS CUSTOMER PROFILE When reject rates on a choc-ice packaging line began to climb, the company needed an engineering solution. The resulting scheme, featuring Control Techniques Drives, has cut rejects by 90% and given a rapid payback measured in months. KEY BENEFITS • REJECTS CUT BY 90% • LOWER PRODUCTION COSTS • UNIQUE FLEXIBILITY & CONNECTIVITY THE CHALLENGE Decreasing accuracy and a drift on the synchronisation between conveyor speeds and the actions on the ice cream wrapping machine resulted in increasing reject rates. The waste was a mixture of ice cream and packaging, which had to be sent to land-fill, creating an additional cost on top of the lost production. THE SOLUTION Rewinds & J. Windsor, a Control Techniques drives reseller, analys

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