Streamlining Supply Solutions

December 5, 2024

Considerations in Complete Line Supply

What are Your Business Objectives? What are Your Production Targets?

The most successful CAPEX investments measure their ROI against specific production targets, which align with your business’ overall objectives, over a 1, 3, 5 or 10 year period.

Examples include…

Business Objective: Increase Revenue and Market Share

Production Target 1: A specific increase in production volume, IE: units produced.
Production Target 2: Increase production of higher-margin or in-demand products to maximize revenue.
Production Target 3: Reduce production lead times by a certain time scale or percentage, to improve time-to-market and boost competitiveness.

Business Objective: Cost Reduction and Profit Margin Improvement

Production Target 1: Reduce per-unit production costs through lean manufacturing, bulk purchasing, or process optimisation to boost profit margins.
Production Target 2: Reduce waste generated during production, which helps cut costs and aligns with sustainability goals.

Business Objective: Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility

Production Target 1: Set targets for energy or water usage reduction per unit produced.
Production Target 2: Increase the percentage of CAPEX equipment sourced from sustainable suppliers.

Whether you’ve been charged with increasing output, reducing waste, streamlining processes or improving your sustainability credentials, approaching prospective CAPEX suppliers with your goals gives them the greatest chance of supporting you to achieve them.

Meeting Your Targets: Supplier Relationships & Service Quality

As the filling machine is generally the heart of any packaging line, at Adelphi Masterfil we believe that not only is it essential that we are able to offer integrated complete lines and a complete project management service, but we are also in the ideal position to do so.

The benefits of this service for your operations:

Supplier Coordination and Communication: Your dedicated representative manages the extensive communication which comes with using multiple vendors. This ensures delivery timelines, installation and troubleshooting align seamlessly.

Quality Assurance Across Different Vendors: Our proven network of third party suppliers ensures consistent quality across all components of your line. Alternatively, if you have OEM equipment suppliers who you already know and trust, we will also be pleased to integrate our equipment with theirs – whatever best suits you!

Cost Management and Preventing Budget Overruns: Managing a budget across multiple suppliers can quickly become complex. Adelphi Masterfil will issue one single quotation which includes all elements of your line; both technical specifications and cost information is all collated together in one place for your convenience.

We pride ourselves on saving Production Managers the burden of also acting as Project Managers!

Achieving Your Goals with Adelphi: The Recommended Equipment for Your Project

Filling Automation >>>     Capping Automation >>>

The specific features to benefit your application…

Versatile Filling Programmes
Production Benefit: Waste Reduction!

The Adelphi Masterfil machine portfolio includes an array of filling options, and our team will advise the best choice to suit your product. For example, we typically recommend a ‘rise-while-fill’ functionality for chemical manufacturers, as it minimises frothing, overspill and waste in these potentially foamy, water-based products; or into-neck for non-foaming products for faster fill cycles. All fill programmes are saved via a digital interface for faster line changeovers.

Drive System
Production Benefit: Reduced Environmental Impact!

Adelphi Masterfil will work with you and offer a line solution that fits with your line environment and existing site services. Our filling lines are can be specified with pneumatics or with a servo drive system. Servo drive systems operate on an electrical motor and belt drive system, which has the benefits of both being quieter, and can have lower environmental impact as it uses less compressed air to power it.

Flushing, Cleaning and Changing Filler
Production Benefit: Save Time and Therefore Money!

Our filling and capping machine range all include quick product and container changeover capability, which minimises costly production downtime.  The nozzles can also be changed over if a different fill method is required.

When it comes to chemical filling machines, the cleaning process in between products is straightforward, consisting of a flush of the machine, and then a run through with clean warm water.

For lubricant and other oil fillers, which must be flushed with flushing oil, our machines are fitted with a Sump Pump. This acts as a reservoir, which collects the flushing for re-use.

Label Application
Production Benefit: Reduce Re-Handling and Quality Rejects!

We place the labelling machine at different parts of our complete lines depending on what your lines are filing. If the machine is filling up a lubricant based product, we typically place the labelling machine before filling the container this is due the natural oil mist in the air when filling up lubricant products. This enables the labels to hold to the containers. For chemical water-based filling we would generally place the labelling after the capping.

Temperature Compensation
Production Benefit: Increased filling accuracy, for greater profitability potential!

When supplying complete packaging lines for lubricant products, we use temperature compensation to adjust the fill volume or weight, to account for any changes in the oil density which can be caused by temperature fluctuations. Since liquids like oil expand when heated and contract when cooled, their volume can change significantly with temperature, resulting in potentially inaccurate filling with either over or under-filling.

 

What are YOUR KPIs?

If your overall business objective is to increase line profitability by 10% within the year, you could set specific production targets like:

• Reduce production costs by 8% through lean manufacturing and efficient line operation.
• Improve yield by 5% by minimizing defects and increasing acceptable product throughput.
• Increase output by 12% to meet rising demand without raising fixed costs.
• Reduce lead time by 20% to allow quicker sales response, supporting the profitability target by reducing time-to-market & inventory holding costs.

Each of these targets ensures that your production team is working toward the company’s profitability goal by optimising efficiency, reducing waste, and increasing throughput.

At Adelphi Masterfil we pride ourselves on having machinery and complete line solutions that can directly support you to achieve your production and business KPIs. Our engineer-to-engineer approach and turnkey project management from our dedicated team, delivers a personal approach with global scale expertise, to help you get your filling line right for production.

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