CASE STUDY ALUMINUM EXTRUDER COMPANY We recently worked with one of America’s most advanced aluminum extruders. They offer over 5,000 products and have the unique ability to customize products based on customer specifications. The company serves numerous industries, including EV vehicle parts, construction, and aerospace. CHALLENGES Their company was having difficulty managing their label inventory…
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Giant Jones Brewing Company Case Study
CASE STUDY Giant Jones Brewing Company Giant Jones Brewing Company is an independent, woman-owned brewery in Madison, Wisconsin. As Wisconsin’s only certified organic brewery, their team needed to improve and automate their bottling and canning line. The existing label applicator and conveyor did not add the bottled date and ABV to the labels. The Giant Jones Brewing team was handwriting this…
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CASE STUDY PVC PIPES AND FITTINGS MANUFACTURER Raab Sales was contacted to assist a North American manufacturer of injection-mold PVC pipes and fittings. Over 50 years, this company has re-engineered the standard PVC pipe by using PVC derivatives like PVC-O to create pipes and fittings that can last for over 100 years and require 40%…
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PART IDENTIFICATION MARKING ON ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS Our customer Global Digital Instruments manufactures a wide variety of very small digital meter products (average size of .75″ wide x 1.125″ long). The print surface is black. Metal FASTON connector tabs that are .250″ wide x .5″ long protrude from the product print surface. The products are nested…
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SITE DETAILS Founded in 1965 in Taipei, Taiwan, LCY Corporation established its first United States facility in Baytown, Texas, in 2004. They contracted Industrial and Shippers Supply, Inc. (ISSI) at the time for printer recommendations. As a result, ISSI sold and installed the Marsh ML8, a Large Character DOD printer. After two decades of hard…
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Problem: This client utilizes a filling machine to fill tubes with caulk. Product discharges from the filling machine at a continuous rate. Operators had a hard time opening a case blank, holding it on a table and filling it at the rate of the processing machine. Tubes would fall over in the case, making it…
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Problems The customer was sometimes required to place labels on certain parts they were producing, which was being done manually. Labels were occasionally missed and not applied. When it was being done, the label placement was inconsistent, and additional labor was required when these jobs were run. Solution PIN Distributor, MarkPack, Inc., offered an opportunity for…
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Problem: This customer manufactures caulk which is filled in tubes. They have a need to mark the caulk tubes with manufacturing information for tracking purposes. Their method of printing consisted of older model continuous inkjet printers of different makes and models. The printers did not provide good print quality and always required adjustments and maintenance,…
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Problem: This plastics manufacturer had internal initiatives to include product coding in advance of pending government legislation and as a highly-prized value-add for both existing and potential customers. Currently the product, plastic film, runs through an oven and is then wound into roll sizes suitable for sale to end-users. It is then packed in a…
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Problem: This customer was using large character printers with yellow pigmented ink, printing seven lines of text and logos in multiple areas on the drums. The supplier could not manage all of this information from one controller, so multiple units were in place to accomplish this. Additionally, the MEK pigmented ink did not have a…
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