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IS PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENTS

IS production developments

Wilfried Seidensticker
Hot End Product Manager
HEYE INTERNATIONAL GMBH

Heye Servo
Plunger

HEYE INTERNATIONAL

Manufacturer’s benefit

of multi weight production

ASSORTMENT PRODUCTION MASTERS EVER INCREASING DEMANDS A
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ince the development and UNIQUE ADVANTAGES sections running in normal pro-
successful market launch The system finds practical duction routine. Not one single
Sof the Heye Multi Weight applications both in the sam- gob is being wasted nor rejected.
solution in 2008 (also called pling of new containers and in The outstanding benefit of
‘assortment production’), mar- the production of smaller quanti- this multi weight technology is
ket demands have continued to ties, which are considerably less efficiency of short job runs. In
increase. Heye has successfully expensive when running assort- general, short job runs are pro-
met customers’ requirements ment production. duced when consumers request
by continuously developing this In the past, sampling proce- high-end articles (i.e. perfume
product. The multi weight solu- dures counteracted yields of an bottles). It is evident that com-
tion masters a variety of scenar- entire production line for hours mon bottles, such as for beer
ios applied by container manu- or even for an entire shift. With or water, reach a much wider
facturers, and makes production the use of this latest technique it market in quantity compared
much more efficient to what was is possible to carry out sampling to more luxury filling materi-
possible prior to the introduction of new articles on one or two sec- als such as spirits or perfume.
of this technique. tions while keeping the remaining Consequently, multi weight tech-

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