Ways To Improve Bulk Bag Filling Productivity and Performance

1. Match Bulk Bag And Filling Equipment: There’s no such thing as a ‘standard’ bulk bag. Bulk bags should be designed specifically to meet your requirements just like the bulk bag filling system. If they are not customized to work together, you’re passing not maximizing productivity, profit and potentially safety. Bulk bag filling requires systems thinking and customization to optimize results.
    
2. Improve Densification: Almost 50% of bulk bag filling operations report problems with bulk bags slumping or falling over. This is a safety hazard and ruins productivity and profitability. It also causes inefficient use of warehouse space. Plus, better-densified product requires a shorter bag for a given weight thereby reducing packaging costs. Significant improvements can be achieved by solving densification problems.
    
3. Optimize Upstream Equipment: If the upstream process and related equipment providing product to the bulk bag filler is not optimized you can be suffering from inconsistent weighing, low productivity and anemic profitability. A customized approach must be taken to integrating bulk bag filling with your production processes to ensure maximum productivity and profitability.
    
4. Improve Weighing Accuracy: If you sell your product by weight and each bulk bag is overfilled* by more than 1 – 2 lb, you are giving away product for free. A bulk bag filler that weighs precisely and consistently will instantly generate incremental revenue and profit.
    
5. Automate: One-ton bulk bags can be filled on a single machine at rates of 30 – 35 bags per hour with consistent weighing accuracy of ± 1 – 2 lbs... even up to 45 bags per hour if pre-weighing is used. Significant productivity increases can be achieved by automating your bulk bagging operation – while improving densification and weighing accuracy.

If any of the above sounds familiar, Control and Metering can help.

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* If you sell by weight each bag is almost certainly overfilled to avoid short-shipping your customers.