How automating your syringe packaging line can increase your output an

How automating your syringe packaging line can increase your output and save you money

There are many approaches to increasing the speed and output capacity of your packaging line to meet the extremely high demand generated by the COVID pandemic. As vaccine production and distribution roll out globally in the upcoming months, the ability to ramp up production and packaging of syringes may require a combination of tactics. Automation may be one of your best strategies.Get more news about Newest Syringe Auto Feeder,you can vist our website!

Add more labor to the line. If your line isn’t automated, more workers are required to do jobs that automation could accomplish or help with. These jobs include loading, unloading, completing checks, and labeling. However, adding labor doesn’t always mean expanded capacity and output. Your primary packaging machine is only so big and can package a finite number of syringes at a time. Moreover, additional staff is costly and manual labor can be unreliable.
Integrate automation into the line. If you use manual labor to load, unload, and do anything a machine or robot can do, you may not be operating as efficiently as possible. Consider replacing those manual operations with automated components.
For example, often times facilities will have up to eight workers per shift manually supporting a packaging line, with each of those workers costing the company about $50,000 a year in salary and insurance. That means that for one shift that packaging line is costing the company up to $500,000 in labor alone. With automation, there are ways to reduce the labor by integrating automatic feeding, robotic loading, case packing and more. Instead of eight workers, automation might allow for about three people per shift which would be only $150,000 per year. That is a labor savings of $350,000 a year.

If a loading system costs $1 million, perhaps the investment wouldn’t make sense because it would take nearly three years for payback, which is longer than the desired two years or less. But if you’re running two shifts, and eliminating ten line workers, that investment might make sense. Furthermore, this example doesn’t even account for additional costs such as training, paid sick time, insurance, and uneven production: workers working faster at the beginning of a shift than at the end.

Again, your primary packaging machine can package a finite number of syringes a minute. However, an automated line can run reliably for a longer stretch of time, increasing overall output in that fashion. Say you have 20 employees in total that work on your line. 10 employees work one eight hour shift while the other 10 work the other eight hour shift. With automation you can decrease the employees per shift to two or three and reallocate the remaining employees to more rewarding jobs in the plant. More rewarding jobs can lead to improved employee retention, reducing hiring and training costs. Moreover, automation and vision systems can perform checks and automatically discard bad packs, which is faster and more reliable than manual checks done by humans.
A larger, fully automated packaging line will guarantee an increase in output and capacity. Faster lines can produce several hundred syringe packs per minute depending on the machine.

For a fully automated syringe line, you first need to consider how the product arrives to the line so you can choose the right feeding system. Sometimes they arrive in bulk while other times they may be fed directly from the assembly equipment and be hanging vertically on a rail.