Category: Production

Our Engineers Work for You

You wouldn’t knowingly sign off on a cheap machine that doesn’t work or meet your needs, but we hear it

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Robots and Automation

It seems like I can’t turn around these days without seeing another article about robots. Especially about how robots will

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Equipment Automation: Labor

Labor is expensive! That is why so many USA companies sent their manufacturing overseas or hired overseas employees. Others decided

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Equipment Automation: Efficiency

What is the source of your plant inefficiency? Does it come from lack of training, damaged product, minimum/slow production, machine

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Equipment Automation: Productivity

Manual and semi-manual production rely highly on their employees and operators. This, over time, leads to product inconsistencies, damage, and

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Connecting Islands of Automation

In John Henry’s white paper, Flat-Top Conveyor Basics, he explains that “conveyors are intelligent bridges between islands of automation.”
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Tube Fillers

When we think of collapsible tubes we most likely think of toothpaste since we all use it every day. Tubes

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Intelligent Automation

A highly-fantasized process, automation can be as simple as auto-updating computer programs or as complicated as a packaging system of

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3 and 4-Sided Pouches

Pouches, sometimes called sachets, are generally formed from roll fed filmstock. They can also be formed offline at a converter

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It Starts with Samples

Eyeglasses are far cheaper online than in store, and many consumers are gravitating toward e-commerce in return. One problem that

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Frain’s R&D DNA

Research and Development (R&D), also referred to as Product Innovation, Product Development, and Product Diversification has exploded with new brands

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Machine Down

When, not if, your packaging machinery goes down, service technicians will normally check for wear and tear or damaged components

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