Double Bundle Loading System in Brunswick, GA, USA

Automotive Aftermarket Exhaust Manufacturer
Challenge:
Lean manufacturing principles have long been used to reduce the amount of non-value added or waste in manufacturing. One of those wastes is material handling. Simply moving a part from one location to another is not adding value to that part. It is also waste to be waiting on a material handler to deliver raw material to a process. This Case Study highlights how Haven helped to reduce material handling waste for an automotive aftermarket exhaust customer. Our solution was to build a custom double bundle loading system, integrating two loading sections, in series, with independent controls; Bundle “A” and Bundle “B”. Having two bundle locations feeding a single Haven Model #873 Servo dual-blade shear cutoff, allows the process to run uninterrupted, as long as one of the loader sections has tubes in it. Therefore, when Bundle “A” is empty, the machine automatically switches over to Bundle “B”.