Our customer needed an automated system to sort different brands of aluminum can beverages into specific 20-can recipes, while collecting data to integrate with their current ERP system. Their current process involved hundreds of workers, many of whom English is not their first language, working 24 hours a day loading trays by hand, with no real data being generated during this time. These cans and trays have differences in size, cleanliness, and quality which resulted in poor quality control, incorrect recipes, and problems with output whenever workers were gone. They needed a turn-key system that has little to no downtime and would maximize production while leaving workers to be better utilized in less critical areas.
