Intralox Case Study: Prominent Candy Manufacturer | Intralox One of the USA ’s most well-known candy manufacturers needed to replace its slat switch. The plant had to set aside two hours every other week for slat switch maintenance, boosting annual labor costs for this application alone to $11,000. Complicating matters further, the model was discontinued, and outsourcing spare parts was both expensive and inconvenient. The slat switch had not been replaced as no other equipment could handle the manufacturer’s small, fast product (5.75 in x 3.75 in, 1-in tall, conveyed at 200 parts per minute [ppm]). The candy manufacturer turned to Intralox for a solution: the Intralox® Activated Roller BeltTM (ARBTM) Switch S7050. A factory acceptance test of its product on the ARB Switch S7050 convinced

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