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



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



CHALLENGE

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



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

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