(1) My business ships about 1000 corrugated cardboard boxes per week. We have 5 sizes of box, which we buy in flat form and currently hand construct into shipping boxes with tape. Can you recommend a machine to do this? It might be best if the machine could trivially switch between the five sizes on-demand. Alternately, we store maybe a hundred of each box size, in flattened form, probably in a rack above the machine, and just construct 20-50 of each size at a time. Hopefully you can imagine the situation from my description? If it makes any difference, we pad the boxes with crumpled paper to pad the different combinations of shipped content.
It's past time we automated the shipping-box building step, at least. I would appreciate any suggestion you might be able to make from your prior industry experience.
(2) The other automation step we remain stuck on, in case you have an idea, involves taking five (large) cookies or power-bars at a time off a stream wrapping machine and boxing or bagging them together, as we sell in packs of five. The individual cookies/bars come off a Fuji-Foremost machine at 6-120 per minute and we are still stuck in the dark ages, grabbing 5 at a time, in a single flavor, and bundling or boxing them by hand.
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