BEFORE
Labor shortage causing production constraints, health & safety risk with manual stacking.
NOW
Reduced manual labour staff required from 3 to 1. Production is over 2x more efficient.
Equipment:
- L10 Bag Stitcher on Mobile Base
- SH2000 Bag Sealer on Mobile Base
- Bag Kicker
- Powered Bag flattener
- Fuji EC-102 Robotic Palletizer
Azwood, a leader in bio-fuel pellet production for industrial and domestic markets, faced challenges with their manual bag-stacking process. The repetitive, heavy lifting required posed a health and safety risk and made it difficult to find staff willing to perform the task. This labor shortage led to production inconsistencies that impacted their supply chain.
To address these challenges, Aurora installed a Fuji Robotic Palletizer, transforming Azwood’s operation. The automation reduced the labor requirement from three workers to two, and more than doubled their production efficiency. The versatile EC-102 robot handles various bag sizes, efficiently stacking them onto pallets and streamlining the process for transportation. The Fuji Palletizer has truly been a game changer for Azwood, ensuring a safer workplace and greater production consistency.
‘One of our lead drivers was the labor shortage nationally, around the country, we can’t find level entry staff wanting to come in, it is hard back breaking work, and with the robot in play now it’s going to save an injury for a starter’
‘Operators are loving it, it’s all automated now, we have one bagger, fires the bag through the automated sewer and straight to the robot, so that’s way quicker. We freed up two full-time equivalents in that role’
‘The team, the after sales service is great, it’s not just one person in your organization, it’s a whole lot of people there doing a great job’
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