Productivity in a small package
April 7, 2004 | bengisu yilmazturk
By Sara Pearson Specter, Editor at Large
Modern Materials Handling
Integrating reusable containers into ink jet cartridge manufacturing yields big productivity improvements and cost savings at Epson Portland, Inc.
In today's competitive ink jet cartridge manufacturing market, labor costs and productivity are a make or break proposition. About a year ago, Epson Portland Inc. (EPI), located in Hillsboro, Ore., looked to automate its manual packaging processes to better compete on a global scale. Tera Kintz and Diana Davis, from EPI's ink cartridge manufacturing engineering division, were charged with making that happen.
The facility's original process involved manually packing a variety of cartridges, built for 16 different models, into corrugated cardboard boxes as the car
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