When the efficiency of your palletizing equipment is paramount to the success of your material handling, balancing between your available budget and the most effective equipment, requires difficult decisions. Here are three reasons to help you make better choices.
1. Look for Flexibility
Hybrid solutions will provide you with more flexibility compared to previous conventional palletizing equipment. Where your choice can stretch to including traditional tasks, combined with robotics technology, you may be able to pick and wrap with one piece of equipment and complete the task in a shorter timeframe.
2. Compare the Long-Term Cost of Ownership
When you only consider the return on your investment, you may only choose conventional palletizing equipment as suitable for your planning and financial requirements.
When you compare the cost of purchasing traditional equipment with the more modern hybrid solutions, are the cost savings going to benefit your company when you think of your future growth? Does a hybrid equipment purchase negate the need to purchase other tools, to complete the dual roles?
3. Safety Is Always Important
Training employees to manage your equipment is vital if they are to be safe in their work. This reduces accidents, time that employees are taking sick days while decreasing the management stress when dealing with insurance claims and health and safety officialdom.
Choosing more flexible equipment that sits well within your long-term financial planning are great advantages for any organization. However, you must consider how your material handling will be affected by changing your equipment and to ensure that it meets all the international standards required for the products and goods leaving your warehouse.
While the purchase of new flexible equipment will continue increasing the price of purchase, how will the additional robotics technology fit in with your materials handling? Will you have to make other changes within your business to suit this specific equipment?