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Wireless Communication of Box Dimensions

OEM T-Roc needed a complete solution for box-making, including not just a way of measuring items to be boxed but of communicating those dimensions wirelessly to the cutting and scoring heads of a servo-driven box-maker.

Items to be packed are set upon a sizing table and scanned with a measuring light screen from Banner Engineering that uses an array of closely spaced light beams to determine the precise profile of what’s on the sizing table.
Items to be packed are set upon a sizing table and scanned with a measuring light screen from Banner Engineering that uses an array of closely spaced light beams to determine the precise profile of what’s on the sizing table.

Whether shipping various products for e-commerce or packaging multiple medical products in kits, healthcare manufacturers are increasingly in need of boxes in custom sizes for unique shipment configurations.

T-ROC builds box-making machines that take large sheets of corrugated and convert them into the corrugated cases that are in greater demand than ever since e-commerce has taken hold the way it has. Now that shipping costs are based not only on weight but overall box dimensions, too, the ability to accurately size a box has never been more important to T-ROC’s customers. So the firm set out to find an easy-to-use way of sizing the item or items to be boxed and loading those dimensions into its box makers automatically.

What T-ROC was trying to improve upon was a semi-automatic approach where an operator had to select an icon on an HMI screen that represents a box blank style. The HMI screen then led the operator step by step through the entire process of choosing dimensions, quantity, and tabs for every style. The touch screen prompted the operator when to start feeding sheets of material.

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