unitize

Software provides the minimum inner diameter required to safely and securely wrap and unitize the product while preventing the purchase of excess machine capacity.

PLYTH, based on the Pythagorean theorem, the proprietary software provides the minimum inner diameter required to safely and securely wrap and unitize the product while preventing the purchase of excess machine capacity.

From manual operations to fully automatic equipment, here's a look at common ways to unitize a load.

There are also a number of suppliers that offer equipment that can unitize, stretchwrap and apply labels.

When Hershey engineers automated the palletizing room last summer, they arranged four palletizers, many feet of conveyor, a transfer car and an automatic stretch wrapper-enough equipment to automatically unitize 40 loads per hour-into just 7,000 square feet of space.

Stretchwrap is then applied to the entire pallet to protect the outer layers of the label material and further unitize the load.

Managers found they also had to automate their stretch wrapping operation in order to safely unitize and protect loads of hay, alfalfa, and wood shavings for long international shipments to Pacific Rim markets as distant as Korea and Taiwan.