How To Increase Your Folder-Gluer Productivity With Investment?

Figuring out how to increase your folder-gluer’s productivity is hard, it’s not something you can easily google and find an answer for.

But every packaging company shares one thing in common, they all want to maximize their productivity.

In fact, you’re probably at a point where you know your folder-gluer can run faster and produce more, but your workers can’t match that maximum speed, and it’s normal.

There will come a point where your folder-gluer will hit maximum potential and there is nothing you can do to make the gluer run faster or better without additional solutions.

This is the real tipping point where you know that it’s time to explore options that require investing. 

In this article, we will explore complementary solutions and automation solutions to increase your folder-gluer productivity, and provide you with 5 tips to increase your productivity.

What Are Complementary Solutions and Automation Solutions?

We define complementary solutions as peripheral devices that you can add to your folder-gluers, such as conveyors, tilting tables, and box turners. 

Automation solutions, on the other hand, are folder-gluer packers that are partially or fully automated. 

Impack Packaging’s Ergosa is our most popular semi-automatic packer, we also have the Virtuo + ACF, a fully-automatic packer, and the only 100% fully auto packer that exists on the market for both corrugated and carton boards. We also have the Everio, an automatic stacker that can adapt to any of your production needs.

On the other hand. complementary solutions are prerequisite steps that you should add prior to considering automating your end-of-line process with a folder-gluer packer. 

🔎 If you want to learn more about complementary solutions and other alternatives that require no investment, read this article to learn all the options available to you.

Let’s explore the 5 steps outlined below that were recommended by our top engineers and production specialists from their observations of hundreds of companies worldwide.

5 Ways to Increase Your Folder-Gluer Productivity by Investing

1. Ensuring the glued boxes don't require 100% inspection.

• Implementing gluer inspection and ejection systems to make sure that your boxes are well-glued even at higher speeds is the first step you need to take.

2. Add tilting tables to place the boxes onto and to allow an easy ejection motion.

• Tables that are tilted at an angle helps prevent the boxes from falling down when placed into the case. Most clients we see have a tilting table where when the case is full, they simply push it so that it tilts and then they eject it straight. 

3. Add a simple conveyor and(or) a box turner to slow things down and better orient the boxes for the packing person.

• A further would be to have additional packing aid by adding a conveyor and a box turner to your line. The conveyer will allow you to give the packing person more time if an issue were to arise. The turner on the other hand would better orient the shingle to make the packing easier for your workers.

4. Add a case sealer to automate the case-sealing process after the manual ejection of the case.
   
   

• If you have multiple folder-gluers converging to the palletization station, then you might want to consider more advanced case-sealing technology down your packing line. 

5. If you are packing with 2 people, bring all the cases to a central place for palletizing.
   
   

• Two folder-gluers can have 1 central station for palletizing with 1 person manning both folder-gluer lines.

Do You Want to Learn More About Increasing Your Folder-Gluer Productivity?

We can guarantee that implementing these 5 steps will result in a productivity boost and get your company the best payback out of your investment in both complementary solutions and automation solutions you may install in the.

If you want to learn more on how to increase your folder-gluer productivity with or without an automated packer, read the articles below:

How To Maximize Your Folder-Gluer Productivity

What’s the Difference between Manual, Semi-Auto, Auto, and Fully-Auto Folder-Gluer Packers?

Should I Buy a New Folder-Gluer or Invest in Packing Equipment to Improve my Productivity?