ABCO Systems Print and Apply Solutions – Panther Industries.
Increase Throughput and Reduce Labor Costs.
Partnered with Panther Industries, ABCO Systems can incorporate Panther labeling automation solutions to maximize your throughput. Supporting e-commerce, retail, distribution, logistics, and mail-order pharmacy markets, a labeling automation solution from Panther Industries is designed to move your items through your system – fast. Specifically, the Predator system which can label packages of varying heights – in motion – with incredible speed and accuracy.
Operational efficiency within warehouses and distribution centers is pivotal to success especially in the current environment. ABCO Systems is here to help your operations become aligned with the systems needed to increase throughput and accuracy and improve processes to have your fulfillment center achieving excellence. ABCO Systems provides Print and Apply systems as standalone and fully automated conveyor systems. Print and Apply systems are extremely beneficial in the shipping and manifesting process.
Typical Print and Apply systems include a barcode scanner to identify the particular parcel, a print/apply machine, conveyor for inducting, labeling, and discharge, a verification scanner to read the printed label, software to merge data, and communicate with the host system, and shipping software as required. Warehouse automation solutions such as Print and Apply will provide enormous benefits in order fulfillment, speed, accuracy, and overall cost savings. Print and Apply solutions provided by ABCO Systems are an effective way to remove the increasing expenses associated with rising labor costs.
The industry-leading Predator top apply all-electric print-and-apply solution from Panther Industries will increase your throughput, reduce expenses, and decrease waste or loss due to human error.
Key Features of the Predator Labeling System
100% electric servo drive (no compressed air)
High speed applicator – up to 200 IPS
Adaptive Touch technology provides light touch during label application process
Adaptive applicator automatically adjusts to carton height, ensuring accurate and consistent label placement
Label application distances up to 58” (tamp), or 18” (swing arm)
Remote-mounted 7” touch screen display
OEM print engine design for off-the-shelf replacement
Error reporting for fast, efficient troubleshooting
Whether you ship hundreds or thousands of packages per day, your operations need speed, accuracy, and efficiency. Together, with Panther Industries, ABCO Systems will provide leading print and apply technology solutions for superior printing and seamless integration.
Supply Chain works to keep shelves stocked and packages moving to arrive at your door. What it takes to make this happen, is not something the average person usually thinks about.Even people that have worked in this industry for years probably never realized the full scope of our dependency on them.
Over the past few weeks, we have all heard about how essential our supply chain is to food, medicine, toiletries and all the other items we use in our daily lives.This is a topic that much of the world never took into consideration until now.The Supply Chain affects everyone, and yet very few are familiar with the term and how it relates to their daily lives. The convenience of going to the store or clicking a mouse to receive whatever you desire, is the result of a vast network of people and machinery working seamlessly together.
Products from around the world travel to factory floors, warehouses and distribution centers. Some products are then manufactured while others move quickly, like food, from a farm to a network of warehouses and then to your local grocer. Items like produce, meat and fish are moved by trucks, boats and even planes to warehouses and distribution centers where forklifts race to receive and breakdown orders in just the right quantities for your local store. Buyers use software to track usage, predict sales, and stock the shelves. The reason shelves go empty in times of crisis is because the normal buying patterns spike and the supply chain needs time to react. In the short term, the supply is disrupted. During a snowstorm or tropical storm, the disruption is as little as a day. This pandemic is taking a herculean effort to not only meet the needs of our daily lives, but to also support our health care system. Companies like Wakefern, headquartered in Keasby, NJ are working hard to meet the increased demands while aiding the Governor’s office to move hospital equipment.Some companies have pledged to produce new equipment in their factories, fly planes to move products quicker and share technology to produce equipment faster.
Other items like clothing and consumer goods have longer lead times. Orders for clothing, TVs and seasonal items are predicted and created months in advance.As these items arrive at the warehousing and distribution facilities, they need to have space to store them until we return to normal levels of use.These facilities cannot leave the items on their docks clogging up their ability to ship the items that are needed to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Many consumers have moved to ordering personal care, pharmacy, and food on-line. This shift has created tremendous demand within these warehouses.
On-line powerhouses like Walmart and Amazon have been shipping at record levels as the buying habits of many have shifted. The web of manufacturing facilities, shipping, distribution centers, and delivery vehicles have been relatively quick to react in the short term. There will be a review of our dependence on critical items that are manufactured outside the U.S. This pandemic will likely lead to a resurgence of American-made, and in many cases, NJ-made products that will shorten the supply chain and eliminate uncertainty. The Harvard Business review reports that the U.S. supply chain contains 37% of all jobs, employing 44 million people.These 44 million people are working harder than ever to keep New Jersey and our country moving forward.
With all this additional strain being placed on our supply chain it is imperative that companies that support them continue to do so.From the mechanic that keeps the trucks running, the planes flying and the trains moving to the maintenance person that troubleshoots and repairs a conveyor system in the middle of the night. It is this support structure that ensures these items are getting to where they need to be. Companies like ABCO Systems, located in Belleville, have teams of service technicians repairing conveyors and automation equipment, keeping essential businesses up and running.Their engineers have even sourced and designed temporary systems to meet the spike in demand.
