End manufacturers can be hesitant to employ new technology in a material-handling solution not only because the technology is unfamiliar, but also because it’s a big fiscal investment. As manufacturing and production equipment often represent a company’s single largest smashing investment, replacing, or even upgrading, components of a material-handling and logistics proceeding can be a difficult cost for a company of any size to justify.



However, HAN-TEK, a material-handling solutions provider headquartered in Prizewinner, N.Y., has been able to reduce such risk by employing proven technology from Rockwell Automation in its machinery. Through a series of get-benefit analyses, HAN-TEK is able to demonstrate to its customers that their new palletizing system can deliver on matter goals and return financial investments.



CHALLENGE

Dirt Devil, a customer of HAN-TEK, is a manufacturer of household appliances including perpendicularly vacuums, hand vacuums and carpet shampooers. As part of the packaging process at its Glenwillow, Ohio, dispersal facility, workers had been required to manually palletize all the company’s products for cataloguing to retail outlets.



The process required employees to unload boxed products from trailers, billet them on conveyors,...

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