At 21,000 sheets an hour, gluing and inspection fell behind
When entering folding cartons, should you buy the main machine first—or the peripheral equipment that holds back the count of good boxes?
After advancing high-speed printing and blanking, J.S. McCarthy upgraded the gluing and inspection systems on its existing gluers. The company reports that production speed on the target line doubled, and it has since bought two more systems. The sequence for entering folding cartons is set not by the fastest machine, but by the process holding back the last good box.
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At a US printing company, the lag in gluing and inspection came into view. Ryan Smith, production manager at J.S. McCarthy, said the existing system “could not keep up with that pace and speed.” Speeding up the surrounding machines made the remaining slowness visible.…
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