Motion Control Brings Flexibility to Packaging
The Reality of Packaging Flexibility Almost every product comes in a variety. For consumer products in food and beverage, customers expect to find what they want in the quantities and in the packaging they want. “I think back to bottled water. When it hit the market, we helped to automate the lines with a single bottle size, and there were two batch sizes, a full case and a partial case,” said Kling. “Now we have to take the manufacturing line and create the flexibility to package them in six-packs, 12-packs and 24-packs, for example. We no longer run the same size for two weeks. We m...