In-house box making system installed
February 1st 2007 Numatic International offers over 4000 industrial cleaning products, many of which are built to order, requiring a vast range of box sizes. Stocking hundreds of different box sizes, especially for lower volume products, became an issue for the company as it looked to reduce inventory levels and adopt JIT manufacturing systems where possible. Numatic decided to manufacture boxes for lower volume and special products in-house. Instead of stocking finished boxes, the company now purchases one standard stock size of sheet corrugated board, helping to reduce inventory levels and factory storage space. Autobox was chosen to supply a complete box making system. A Model SC164 Slitter is used to cut correct sized blanks from the stock corrugated sheet. A Model Boxmaker 1070 is then used to slot and crease the blanks ready for finishing either with a hot melt glue gun or pneumatic stapler, also supplied by Autobox. The 1070 stores frequently used box sizes in the machine memory or can be quickly programmed to produce a new box size or style. It can be changed to produce a different sized box in less than a minute and the whole system requires just one person to operate. More articles from Autobox Machinery Ltd: | 
