Fresenius Material Handling Case Study

Key Technology

Two BMH Robotics Series 4000 conventional palletizers running at 23 cases/minute
Hytrol “Gen 3” Zero Pressure Accumulation conveyor
Blue Arc Engineering counter-balanced powered roller gates
Itoh Denki powered rollers and right angle transfers
Mettler Toledo Hi Speed Check weighing system
Zebra Overture ink jet label application system
Labeljet/Sato print & apply syste
PSI dispensers for automated insertion of the packing list
3M fully automatic carton tapers
WonderWare HMI and BMH Controls.

Flexibility of the packaging line was needed for numerous products to be processed in different sized order batches/li>
Fresenius required several quality inspection procedures on their products before they were palletized and shipped to their customer.

BMH provided a system that allowed Fresenius to simultaneously pack 2 different products for redundancy and increased throughput
Product integrity was maintained by utilizing a bi-directional conveyor system and line setup with safeguards embedded in the Controls system
The Controls system allows for centralized control and automated quality check interlocks for quick line changeover
The new system processes orders 2 times faster than the previous system