UKES has decades of experience designing packaging lines, for a wide range of product types. This extensive knowledge has generated development design guidelines for packaging lines that are used by companies worldwide.

A wide ranging approach is taken, whereby UKES will incorporate within their design the following concepts:

• Line layouts
• Hygienic design details
• Access considerations to equipment and line for both operators and support equipment
• Product Accumulation and Recovery to promote continuous operation between batch packing stages
• Product conditioning prior to entering final pack format
• Label Application (wet & self adhesive) and Coding formats
• Line Balancing, and identification of the critical stage, which is the overall "rate determining step".
• Line Control Philosophy incorporating SCADA management control systems if required.
• Package Options and Combinations to allow multi-format SKU's generated from the same core process
• Palletisation and Bulk Take-off arrangements including transfer to ASRS
• Equipment Features which are complimentary to the unit product configuration
• Industry best practise  applied to improve change-over times and double handling of materials.
• Infrastructure Requirements

UK Engineering Services have extensive experience designing different packaging formats:

Wet labelling ~ Self Adhesive Labelling ~ Foils/Speciality finishes ~ Tamper-Evident ~ Multipack Case ~ Tray & Shrinkwrap ~ Crates & Returnable Packaging ~ Palletising ~  Case to Live Storage

The objective is to achieve line efficiencies of 85-95%, with individual pieces of equipment operating at 95-99% performance level. UKES’ success has been that these techniques realise such efficiencies in the field.

Many companies spend most of their time developing a suitable layout often without giving appropriate consideration to all these elements and incorporating these within their specification and order documentation.

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