CASE STUDY Geary Brewing Incorporated in 1983, Geary Brewing is New England’s first craft brewery in the post-prohibition era. This innovative brewery started a craft beer movement when it poured its flagship beer, Geary’s Pale Ale, in the winter of 1986, and since then, it has developed an extensive line of heritage beers. The company…
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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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Problem: This client was using small character continuous inkjet printers to print on taco and pasta pouches on their fillers at a rate of about 800 pouches per minute. They were having many service issues related to the existing units and were looking for an alternative way of printing flavors and date codes on the…
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Problem: This customer had a labor intensive process of forming boxes, filling the boxes with baked pizza crusts, hand taping the boxes and manually applying pressure sensitive barcode labels to the outside of the corrugated cases. Production would get backed up waiting for several operators to complete the end-of-line steps in the process. Solution: Mammoth Labels…
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Problem: This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment for their corrugated shipping cases. The product was loaded into a box and sent through a folding and sealing carton machine. After the carton was sealed, the date, lot code, product description, expiration date and bar code were printed on the boxes with a Piezo-based…
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Problem: The customer had requirements to upgrade his high-resolution large character inkjet system due to downtime and poor print quality. Cost for repair for each printhead was averaging $3,200-$4,000 every two years. The high cost for ink and frequent priming were continuously rising. Solution: Hitachi installed two thermal inkjet systems capable of printing 2” of print…
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Problem: This customer needed a solution for mismarked glass and plastic bottles of liquor. The plant’s quality assurance manager figured the plant was processing 1,000 mismarked bottles daily. These bottles were half printed, smudged or printed with the wrong batch numbers and/or date codes. The Q&A manager reached out to Raab Sales looking for a…
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Problem: The packaging department of this Michigan manufacturer was printing high resolution product information, expiry dates and bar codes on two or four sides of generic cartons. The case coding equipment used sealed printheads which were not repairable once contaminated with carton dust and angel hair from the gluing systems. The contamination and “bad channels”…
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Problem: This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment on their tray pack line. The product was loaded into a tray and the bar code and product information were printed on the trays with a large character inkjet printer. In addition to this equipment being close to obsolete, the manufacturer experienced several maintenance related…
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Problem: This manufacturer was silk screening their customers’ logos and information onto the ends of wooden reels. This proved to be a very expensive and time-consuming process. Most customers required a specific PMS color for their reels which required this manufacturer to perform a complete cleaning of the silk screening system for each color change….
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