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Stretch Wrapping Monitoring, Measuring, and Tracking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about best practices for stretch wrapping, video webinar included.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/stretch-wrapping-monitoring-measuring-and-tracking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stretch Wrapping Monitoring, Measuring, and Tracking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about best practices for stretch wrapping, video webinar included.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/stretch-wrapping-monitoring-measuring-and-tracking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Region 4\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-12T20:23:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/lantech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2_Containment_Force_Recommendations_1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lantech\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Stretch Wrapping Monitoring, Measuring, and Tracking\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lantech\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/stretch-wrapping-monitoring-measuring-and-tracking\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/stretch-wrapping-monitoring-measuring-and-tracking\/\"},\"author\":{\"@context\":\"http:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Stretch Wrapping Monitoring, Measuring, and Tracking\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/stretch-wrapping-monitoring-measuring-and-tracking\/\",\"image\":false,\"sameAs\":[null],\"jobTitle\":null,\"description\":\"With an estimated $60 billion of waste from unsalable products each year resulting from ineffective stretch wrapping in just the consumer products goods, food, and beverage industries, improving the effectiveness of stretch wrapping is an important step in any shipping operation.\\nThe key to consistency is monitoring, measuring, and tacking\\nAfter determining the correct containment force for your pallet loads, it can be tempting to simply set up the stretch wrapper and wrap loads. This, however, doesn\u2019t mean your job is done. To ensure pallet loads are consistently wrapped effectively, you\u2019ve got to monitor, measure, and track.\\nThese are key tasks that help you identify how well your stretch wrapping is working and it can also help you identify problem areas or opportunities for improvement.\\nSome of the metrics we recommend monitoring, measuring, and tracking include:\\n\\nContainment force\\nCosts\\nDamage\\n\\nContainment Force\\nIt\u2019s especially important to measure and monitor this fundamental stretch wrapping performance measure. Unless you have stretch wrappers that automatically monitor containment force, check it at least once per shift for each wrapper. Correct any variations from your standard immediately.\\nNot sure what your containment force should be? We have a simple tool based on years of recorded field observations. 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