Key cog in the machine
Logistics service provider makes use of multihead weigher solution from Ishida to weigh and pack nuts, bolts and washers into cardboard boxes.
Würth-Logistik provides the primary packaging for more than 1,000 different products, with eight different pack types, fill weights between 40g and 4.5kg and quantities between 50 and 1,000 pcs per box.
The company had been using an Ishida multihead weigher since the late 1980s but while this machine was still in perfect working order, the company needed a new solution that was better able to cope with the growing trend towards smaller pack formats.
The new machine, an Ishida CCW-RVE model, is capable of filling on average 45 boxes per minute, although this figure can be as high as 60 boxes when the weigher is operating at maximum speed. It can fill up to 22,000 boxes per shift, which is an almost 20% improvement in performance compared with the previous system. With overfilling at less than 1%, precision is not compromised by these high speeds.
The new multihead weigher is much more accommodating in handling different pack formats, and frequent product changeovers can be completed very quickly by simply calling up one of the 1,000 pre-sets at the touch of a button.
