Industrial

Industrial

  • Aluminum Extruder Company Case Study
    CASE STUDY ALUMINUM EXTRUDER COMPANY We recently worked with one of America’s most advanced aluminum extruders. They offer over 5,000 products and have the unique ability to customize products based on customer specifications. The company serves numerous industries, including EV vehicle parts, construction, and aerospace. CHALLENGES Their company was having difficulty managing their label inventory used to put ...
  • Giant Jones Brewing Company Case Study
    CASE STUDY Giant Jones Brewing Company Giant Jones Brewing Company is an independent, woman-owned brewery in Madison, Wisconsin. As Wisconsin’s only certified organic brewery, their team needed to improve and automate their bottling and canning line. The existing label applicator and conveyor did not add the bottled date and ABV to the labels. The Giant Jones Brewing team was handwriting this data onto each ...
  • PVC Pipes and Fittings Manufacturer Case Study
    CASE STUDY PVC PIPES AND FITTINGS MANUFACTURER Raab Sales was contacted to assist a North American manufacturer of injection-mold PVC pipes and fittings. Over 50 years, this company has re-engineered the standard PVC pipe by using PVC derivatives like PVC-O to create pipes and fittings that can last for over 100 years and require 40% less material ...
  • Global Digital Instruments Case Study
    PART IDENTIFICATION MARKING ON ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS Our customer Global Digital Instruments manufactures a wide variety of very small digital meter products (average size of .75″ wide x 1.125″ long). The print surface is black. Metal FASTON connector tabs that are .250″ wide x .5″ long protrude from the product print surface. The products are nested in ...
  • LCY Corporation Case Study
    SITE DETAILS Founded in 1965 in Taipei, Taiwan, LCY Corporation established its first United States facility in Baytown, Texas, in 2004. They contracted Industrial and Shippers Supply, Inc. (ISSI) at the time for printer recommendations. As a result, ISSI sold and installed the Marsh ML8, a Large Character DOD printer. After two decades of hard work, ...
  • Case Erector/Chemical
    Problem: This client utilizes a filling machine to fill tubes with caulk. Product discharges from the filling machine at a continuous rate. Operators had a hard time opening a case blank, holding it on a table and filling it at the rate of the processing machine. Tubes would fall over in the case, making it difficult ...
  • Label Applicators/Automotive Parts
    Problems The customer was sometimes required to place labels on certain parts they were producing, which was being done manually. Labels were occasionally missed and not applied. When it was being done, the label placement was inconsistent, and additional labor was required when these jobs were run. Solution PIN Distributor, MarkPack, Inc., offered an opportunity for this customer to ...
  • Chemical Industry Solution
    Problem: This customer manufactures caulk which is filled in tubes. They have a need to mark the caulk tubes with manufacturing information for tracking purposes. Their method of printing consisted of older model continuous inkjet printers of different makes and models. The printers did not provide good print quality and always required adjustments and maintenance, increasing ...
  • Drop-on-Demand Inkjet/Plastics
    Problem: This plastics manufacturer had internal initiatives to include product coding in advance of pending government legislation and as a highly-prized value-add for both existing and potential customers. Currently the product, plastic film, runs through an oven and is then wound into roll sizes suitable for sale to end-users. It is then packed in a case that ...
  • Drop-on-Demand Inkjet/Industrial Components
    Problem: This customer was using large character printers with yellow pigmented ink, printing seven lines of text and logos in multiple areas on the drums. The supplier could not manage all of this information from one controller, so multiple units were in place to accomplish this. Additionally, the MEK pigmented ink did not have a circulating ...
  • High-Resolution Inkjet/Industrial Components
    Problem: This customer was using an older model large character inkjet printer to print logos and directions on small engine filters. There was a need for clear, high print quality that was not being met consistently by the current system. The customer was spending approximately $16,000 on printhead repairs to keep them at an acceptable level ...
  • Service/Building Materials
    Problem: The customer was using a small character CIJ printer to print on their product, rubber roofing material. An operator, unfamiliar with the equipment, poured rubber stamp ink into the printer when the low-ink alarm came on. The incorrect ink caused the printer to fail completely. Service was contacted late on a Friday afternoon and advised ...
  • Case Sealer/Chemical
    Problem: This client was taking packed cases of tubes of caulk and manually closing them, then feeding them into an older model semi-automatic case sealer. The process was labor intensive and slow. Solution: PIN Distributor upgraded the customer to a new automatic case sealer. The PIN Distributor was able to remove the need to close the case after ...
  • Thermal Inkjet/Industrial Components
    Problem: This manufacturer was silk screening their customers’ logos and information onto the ends of wooden reels. This proved to be a very expensive and time-consuming process. Most customers required a specific PMS color for their reels which required this manufacturer to perform a complete cleaning of the silk screening system for each color change. Additionally, ...
  • High-Resolution Printing – Automotive Parts
    Problem: The customer was using a large character Piezo high-resolution printing technology that was antiquated to print on corrugated boxes for a secondary case decorating printer requirement. The operators were dissatisfied with the quality of print and the difficulty and downtime associated with refilling the ink supply with messy ink bags. Solution: Raab Sales provided a superior case ...
  • Drop-on-Demand Inkjet/Building Products
    Problem: This manufacturer was using small character inkjet printers to provide quality control and tracking information on extruded vinyl products. They were experiencing continual delays and downtime due to printer problems and poor print quality. Solution: The customer was looking for a solution other than small character inkjet printing that would be more reliable and provide a quality ...