Palletizers A palletizer is a machine that provides automatic means for sorting, transferring and stacking cases of goods or products onto a pallet; usually at the end of a manufacturing line. Automatic palletizing is good for convenient, high-volume shipping. Palletizers provide load stability, precision and operation speed. They also make it possible to move more …
Achieving Vision through Innovation and Teamwork
Douglas’ Production Planning and Control (PP&C) Team’s vision is to provide planning, scheduling, support services and control of production activities for all our Douglas customer’s so they can execute their Team’s purpose. This past year the PP&C team implemented a large improvement to manufacturing operations. A new system for planning, dispatching and controlling manufactured components …
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Departments Working Together
The Power of Teamwork Do you ever find yourself wondering how other departments and their jobs within fit in the grand scheme of things at your organization? Internal and external customer requests and demands are featured prominently in daily work. It is easy to focus solely on current priorities and not think about the overall …
The Impact of COVID-19 on Packaging
Douglas’ Response & Readiness What we’re experiencing together is unprecedented. As information and guidelines evolve, Douglas employee owners are adapting and taking steps to protect the continued safety and well-being of our employees, customers and suppliers. As a supplier to food manufacturing companies, Douglas is deemed to be a critical business within the meaning of the …
Robotics in Packaging
Douglas Machine SCARA Robotics Wikipedia defines the SCARA acronym as a “Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm.” Around Douglas, we just refer to it as a SCARA robot arm. Wikipedia goes on to say, “By virtue of the SCARA’s parallel axis joint layout, the arm is ‘compliant’ in the XY direction but rigid in the …