Case Study: Fresenius Medical Care
About Fresenius
Fresenius Medical Care is a leading manufacturer and distributor of a wide variety of dialysis products. A global leader, Fresenius provides the highest quality standards in the industry.
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Business Challanges
Flexibility of the packaging line was needed for numerous products to be processed in different sized order batches. Fresenius required several quality inspection procedures on their products before they were palletized and shipped to their customer.
Key Technologies
- 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 system.
- PSI dispensers for automated insertion of the packing list.
- 3M fully automatic carton tapers.
- WonderWare HMI and BMH Controls.
The Results
- 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.
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