Robert Collett offers independent advice and guidance to help clients improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of their packaging operations.
Set out below are some typical situations in which our services are beneficial to clients. We adapt our services to the needs of each client, so if your circumstances do not match the examples we are still keen and able to help.
Would you like to explore possible ways of improving the efficiency and cost effectiveness of packaging operations in your business?
We can help by performing a quick initial review. This looks at how well the business's current packaging lines are operating. The outcome provides a basis for planning how to proceed and make improvements.
Our experience can be available on an ongoing basis to work with your team adding our knowledge in the following areas:
Ongoing awareness of supplier lead times and seasonal impact
Raw material movement and costs
Technology, packaging material and product developments
Printing approaches and processing
We can help your business on an ongoing basis in areas such as the following:
New product development and innovation
Monitoring and improving efficiency of packaging operations
Reviewing specifications and yields of packaging materials (for instance, ensuring manufacturers' margin over polymer does not exceed negotiated levels)
Economic use of printing plates
Security requirements, such as sequential numbering
You might already be considering changing a packaging machine or line. We can help with guidance on selecting suitable new machinery from the many options available. This exercise usually involves the following stages:
Identifying requirements, selecting and implementing new machinery
Researching possible machines and preparing a shortlist of suppliers
Running trials to confirm that the envisaged benefits are achievable in a live packing environment.
Finalising purchase and contractual arrangements
Implementing the new machine
We can also help your business with cutter guides and print lay downs so artwork leads to printed packaging available on line as the engineers complete their commissioning and installation. The aim of this is to have the new line running at its predicted performance level from the start up.
We are available to review all of your packaging projects, in what ever material they are manufactured: glass, wood, cardboard, paper, injection moulded, blown or cast plastic.
Do you require a practical or engineering solution?
Do you wish to review your containerisation to optimise transportation and storage?
Please feel free to talk to me in confidence on any packaging matter.