POWER Engineers provided packaging, mechanical, and integration expertise through a multi-faceted plant relocation project for a major manufacturer of consumer brands, covering a wide variety of food categories. The project resulted from the client’s acquisition of a new business segment and the need to consolidate and integrate both companies’ equipment and processes. The entire project was executed with great discretion so as to minimize impact on the client’s business operations during the transition.
POWER Engineers provided a complete mechanical, electrical, and controls analysis of the original plant’s equipment which included 11 total production lines from filling all the way through palletizing. Among other issues, POWER Engineers addressed code requirements for the reinstallation of the equipment in its new location as compared to the existing installation. Though the project primarily required reuse of equipment, occasionally upgrades were made to the packaging systems as deemed useful. POWER Engineers designed case conveying and unitizing systems to be configured in the new facility. The new facility was designed to repackage bulk product primarily for institutional use. As a specialty packager, the facility packaged single-serving size boxes and bowls of breakfast cereals for the hotel, restaurant and airline industries, in addition to bulk-sized packaging for miscellaneous institutional use.
A complete overhead conveyance and unitizing system was designed and installed that detected varying packages and changed unitizing patterns. The design of this system included the development of a deck that covered a large portion of the production area to maximize the use of floor space. POWER Engineers’ design services included interface to the Warehouse Information Management System (WIMS).
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