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"Reductions in primary packaging and display ready loads along with a host of other green initiatives are driving the need to rethink stretch wrapping from the ground up.

In a nutshell, that's what our LeanWrap technology is all about."

Pat Lancaster, Lantech Founder & Chairman

Don't let a few
sharp corners
slow you down!

Don't let a few
film blemishes
hold you up!

Don't let your
stretch wrapper get
your loads all twisted up!
 


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  Going Green

Companies all over the world are making huge strides in environmental sustainability with respect to product packaging.

Initiatives to reduce, reuse ,and recycle are changing the way products are produced, distributed, and consumed.

While these initiatives generally result in net gains in environmental friendliness, they also frequently result in difficult new challenges in handling and distribution. This is especially true for reductions in primary packaging. The most common issues are:

• Reduced stacking strength
• Reduced load stability
• Increased risk of product damage

Solutions to these issues usually start with getting good containment on the load. Click here to schedule a free consultation to learn more about how LeanWrap Technology can help .
   Eliminate Costly Film Breaks!

Film breaks are a lot like termites. They eat away at your productivity and drive up costs, usually doing their damage unseen and unsuspected.

Major consequences of film breaks are:
• Unplanned down time that results in costly disruptions both upstream and downstream from the stretch wrapper
• Variations from wrap force standards that produces unstable containment, the leading cause of spilled loads in transit
• Operator frustration and impatience that encourages machine tweaking that increases cycle time and film use

Our Metered Film Delivery System in combination with our Load Seeking Clamp 4.0 eliminate s these problems. Our Machine Generated Performance Data gives you the ability to monitor these remarkable results in real time, 24/7. No other stretch wrapper can match that kind of performance. No other stretch wrapper even comes close.
   What Causes Most Film Breaks

Film breaks are costly and disruptive. The No Film Break System attacks these at their source to provide virtually uninterrupted output all day, everyday.




   Film Break Frequency

Film breaks do not occur on every roll of film but they do tend to occur in clusters.




   Film Breaks Are Progressively Disruptive

Operators usually spend progressively more time at the stretch wrapper when film breaks occur in a cluster sequence.




   Film Breaks Affect Wrap Force Settings

When repeated film breaks occur machine operators almost always start reducing wrap force settings to the point where the breaks are eliminated. Nearly as often they fail to increase wrap revolutions to compensate for the reduction in wrap force. This will cause total containment force to float down.




   Less Unexpected Downtime!

Unexpected downtime is a lot like a flat tire. You get taken off course and left with a unpleasant, messy chore to contend with.

Major consequences of unexpected downtime are:

• Value adding activities come to a halt
• Wages and throughput capacity are lost
• Order fulfillment is put in jeopardy
• Support personnel have to be dispatched

Unexpected downtime can almost always be traced directly to some type of system fault. Some of the most common system faults are:

• Film breaks
• Clamp pull outs
• Improperly loaded or threaded film
• Film flaws or blemishes
• Machine is not set up correctly

LeanWrap Technology helps you eliminate these problems.
   Fewer Spilled Loads!

  Spilled loads are a lot like sunburns. By the time they both show up the damage is already done. And both can easily be avoided provided you take the right precautions.

The best protection against spilled loads is getting the right amount of containment force.

Our Metered Film Delivery System provides the highest sustainable containment force of any film delivery system available. This allows you to use fewer revolutions of film per pallet to achieve the containment force you need to successfully ship all your loads.

• Film delivery precisely matches your load containment force specifications
• Film delivery precisely matches your load size and shapes requirements
• Film delivery precisely matches your speed requirements
 

Pat Lancaster

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"If stretch wrapping fails to contain a load during transit… a pretty big chunk of sustainability gains in primary packaging can easily be wiped out."

See article in Packaging Strategies - The role of wrap "stretches"

   Lean


". . . lean is creating more and more value with less and less."

"The lean product development process starts with 'What's the customer's problem now?'"

Jim Womack
Chairman, Lean Enterprise Institute
Jim Womack Interview

   Common Lean Terms


Gemba – Refers to the shop floor or any place where value-creating work actually occurs. It is the Japanese term for “actual place”.

Muda – Any activity that consumes resources without creating value.

Visual Management – Placement in plain view of all indicators of production system performance so the status of the system can be understood at a glance by everyone involved.
   End to end flow of work


Providing customer value is often thought of as a series of separate steps, rather than an integrated flow of work. An end-to-end view of a customer problem or a product as it moves through the entire flow of work prevents problems from falling into the cracks between steps.

For instance, a spilled load is often the result of a deviation from an established containment standard that can be many process steps and departmental silos upstream from where the failure actually occurred. An end to end view provides the framework to address the problem at its source.

By taking this approach we’ve found there is often little understanding on the shop floor (gemba) of the relationship between containment standards and down loads.

To learn more about containment click the Containment tab .

 

 
 

 
 

 

Lantech is the innovation leader in stretch wrapping. We have been since founder Pat Lancaster invented the first turntable stretch wrapper in the early 1970's.

To further strengthen our dedication to unsurpassed customer value, Lantech made a commitment In the early1990's to transform into a Lean enterprise.

A fundamental principle of Lean is that improvements in work always start at the place where the work actually gets done. In Lean that's called going to the shop floor or where the work is done.

The simple principle of observing and understanding work first hand, inside customer plants, along with a relentless focus on continuous improvement, has become the guiding philosophy in our quest to develop products and processes that deliver high value.

We call that guiding philosophy LeanWrap.