Uptime is the only time that matters!
Fluid Milk
Secondary and End-of-Line Packaging for Refrigerated Dairy
Cow, goat, almond, oat, coconut, soy, cashew, hemp, or any other fluid milk. If it needs to be refrigerated for storage, shipping and retail display then it depends on optimized uptime coming out of the filler. There are multiple steps in an optimized secondary and tertiary packaging process including product handing and inspection, case erecting, robotic product (top, bottom, side) loading, case handling and closing, case labeling, carton packing and palletizing.
Regardless of your primary package type, or types — from gable top to plastic gallon jugs or glass quart bottles the automation and control required to maintain a targeted uptime advantage is critical.
Future Proof Your Post-Filler Packaging Investment
High speed fluid dairy packaging systems are a demanding and potentially complex series of interconnected operations.
The packaging operation is essentially the “last mile” in a dairy processing operation. And because food safety is always a primary concern, the packaging operation needs to integrate, automate and control the best combination of OEM technologies. The system needs to communicate with plant wide systems, be routinely cleanable, and needs to be readily and predictably maintained.
Most importantly, maintaining predictable uptime without product or packaging waste is imperative.
From primary packaging to palletizing, there are multiple machine centers, inline functions including product handing and inspection, case erecting, case handling and closing, case labeling, carton or tray packing, check weighing, date coding, pallet patterns, palletizing, and, finished goods warehousing.
No single OEM has all of the best technology to meet all food safety, all schedule, all budget, all package type, all inline operations, and, all space demands and conflicts. Designing and engineering the best-fit solution and the then coordinating and collaborating on all those variables from concept through installation and start-up is where IPM’s OEM-neutral integration thought leadership comes in.
Because when it comes to engineering, controlling, installing and commissioning high-speed, high-volume automated packaging systems in a highly regulated dairy operation: Uptime is the only time that matters.
Uptime Matters!
Packaging systems uptime is mission critical. After you’ve invested all that capital in consumer and retailer feedback, raw materials selection, technology, , experienced people, resident brainpower and the primary branded package — who will you trust to case, carton, convey and palletize the ice cream safely from filler to cold storage?
Our facility planning and feasibility team will assess your current packaging technology, physical plant and growth aspirations and work with you to establish performance goals that end with an agreed scope freeze focused on uptime performance.
This SURE-thing approach equips us to provide you the best integrated packaging system, or, packaging machine center solution best suited to your plant, your product and your commercials aspirations; including:
- Purpose-specific and future-looking features, benefits, advantages
- Functionality and control oriented to your product and production goals and configured to package, or reject, primary packaging that falls outside of targeted retail parameters
- Conveyance, pick-and-place and automation options designed around primary product size, speed and secondary packaging needs
- Best-fit food grade technology from a variety of best-suited OEM’s with no risk bacterial harborage, and calculated to reduce washdown time and water consumption.
- Depending on your current need, product strategy, retail requirements and production aspirations we can build in a expandable level of automation and the most efficient control, expansion capability, schedule and budget
