From supermarket skaters to production line packaging: logistics adapted to Lean Manufacturing

DS Smith Tecnicarton offers packaging for production lines to the industry

Surely anyone who is reading this has ever seen a skater move around a large hypermarket to bring a product or a reference to the line of boxes. It is a matter of reducing the customer's waiting time and not causing a bottleneck in the checkout line.

This idea is really born from the Lean Manufacturing system implemented by Toyota and that gradually the rest of the automotive industry, from OEMs to suppliers of various levels, have been incorporating throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

From the automotive industry, this system has leapt to the whole industry as an indispensable management element. The system seeks the elimination of waste in its broad sense: time or material; it seeks the total quality and reduction of production time and, therefore, cost.

With these premises, DS Smith Tecnicarton offers packaging for production lines to the industry. These are not skaters, but trains that drag these packs and bring the pieces or elements required by line operators for each assembly moment closer to the production lines.

These systems are robust and protect the parts and of course make it possible to optimise the logistics chain and stocks. But above all, they are integrated into the Lean Manufacturing system of industries.

Another advantage of these packages is the possibility of manufacturing them in various materials depending on the products they are going to contain and can also be made to measure.

These packagings that approach the production line can be manufactured in plastic, pendants and flexible, with different sizes of textile cells, Racks with wheels... among others.