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Packing area part automated
January 1st 2012

European Conveyor Systems (ECS) has completed a contract for 34 custom-built work-benches, a powered conveyor, check-weigh scales, a vacuum-assisted lifting device and eight trolleys as part of a major investment to support research and development at GlaxoSmithKline.

Following a previous successful installation for GSK, ECS was awarded the contract for the packing area, where orders for the investigational drugs are picked from high-volume carousels, taken to the work-benches and packed for shipment. A powered conveyor beside the packing benches moves the sealed packages to the despatch area, where scales integrated into the despatch end of the conveyor allow operators to check the weight of each item. If it is less than 15kg, it is lifted manually on to a pallet or into a roll cage. If over 15kg, the vacuum lift unit is used.

The conveyor has a zero-pressure accumulation feature, which allows boxes to queue without touching and be indexed forward one at a time for check-weighing.

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