The Baking Company of Ukiah, a Division of Pamela’s Products, Ukiah, CA, specializes in the production and packaging of natural and gluten-free cookies, crackers, snack bars, and baking mixes for retail and foodservice customers. In selection of its packaging (both clear and foil-based roll stock film from multiple materials suppliers), the company emphasizes eco-friendly options such as recycled and recyclable materials printed with soy inks.
Some weight control and product damage difficulties were occurring on the bagging line for cookies and crackers. Alana Rouse, VP of Operations for Pamela’s Products, says, “Through some fellow cookie and cracker manufacturers, we were hearing good things about the Model XYS08 continuous-motion vertical form/fill/seal bagging equipment from三角包机械公司。与Yamato ADW-A-0314S量表结合起亚马托美洲。我们决定根据对运营的有用性评估设备。”
经过精心设计的自由流程产品，并合并自动化控制和伺服电动机罗克韦尔自动化, the Triangle XYS08 partnered with a 14-head Yamato weigh scale features form/fill/seal speeds up to 150 bags per minute with fast bag size/style changeover capability. Bag sizes may range from 2.5” wide to 8” wide. The machinery can accommodate both supported and unsupported films. Bag sealing options include heat seal and ultrasonic cold seal. The vf/f/s machine also provides the benefit of being relatively compact with a footprint of 56” x 80” x 60” high.
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The new equipment was installed in November 2016. Rouse reports, “Triangle helped us custom-design the set-up we needed, and sent a tech to help with start-up and training. Installation of the new bagger/weigher system made an immediate impact on the amount of finished packages we could produce. Right now, we are using the system for 1-oz to 9-oz packages, and they are high-quality, high-integrity. On average, we are running about 45-50 bpm for the 9-oz bags as opposed to our previous rates of 25 bpm. So we’ve doubled bagging speeds.
“In addition, product and packaging material waste are now at an all-time low, and we’ve also been able to reduce labor costs by re-assigning a couple of employees from the packaging line to other duties. We estimate accumulated savings to be approximately $100,000 per year.”
Rouse总结说：“我建议其他公司的三角XYS08 Bagger和Yamato ADW-A-0314S量表。组合对我们来说表现良好。我们得到了良好的客户支持。该机器易于操作，我们对购买非常满意。”
