Multi-phase palletising and pallet transport project for a leading French cereal manufacturer

Over a 4 year period Scott worked in close collaboration with a large private label cereal and cereal bar manufacturer in Northern France to deliver a major expansion solution.

The initial brief was to connect the customer’s existing full pallet output from 12 productions lines to new pallet wrapping and labelling equipment, automatic full load pallet buffering and fully automated trailer loading system. Scott delivered a flexible pallet conveying system ensuring complete integration with new and existing equipment. As a private label producer, the variety of pallets and load styles meant that Euros, Industrial and “Dusseldorf” display pallets had to be handled, double de-stacked, individually wrapped & labelled and re-stacked as dictated by the end users.

Additional work was then carried out to address issues with the existing robot palletisers efficiencies. This was achieved with a system for empty pallet receiving, checking and re-stacking, thus delivering perfect pallet stacks to each existing production line. The customer was delighted to see a 15% improvement in line outputs, and a lot less manual re-stacking!

To increase output further, Scott also delivered a hybrid palletising solution, including two robotic cells and four conventional palletisers for four new very high speed carton production lines.

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Each stage of the project incorporated Scott’s “Maestro” internal software systems for production data collection & verification, Pallet Factory to handle all logistic pallet data, and Warehouse Control Software. This monitors all production and customer orders, quality checks and ensures track and traceability throughout the supply chain.

With an investment of this size, close collaboration between all partners was critical in ensuring success at each step. Scott’s experience, project managements skills, in house software teams and extensive own manufactured product portfolio made it the ideal partner for this forward thinking and dynamic food manufacturer.

The factory output has been increased to in excess of 100 pallets per hour, eliminating fork truck traffic and human intervention.

The customer appreciated the following strong points of the Scott solution:

The installation is reliable and robust
The Scott project management was a key factor of success during all the project steps
Efficiency of the whole system fits customer´s targets