Minimize tooling and inventory costs
Create production tooling on demand to avoid minimum order quantities, minimize inventory holding costs, and reduce overall part costs.
Industry Feature
Food and Beverage
Join leading manufacturers optimizing their packaging lines
Food and beverage industry leaders are keeping their lines up and running with on-demand MRO parts and production tooling. Improving throughput, optimizing line changeovers, and ensuring operator safety has become crucial with the growing adoption of factory automation. The Digital Forge gives manufacturers a simple way to build custom parts in hours instead of days, print replacement parts for aging equipment that is no longer easily serviced by an OEM, and lightweight robotic arms to improve the performance of expensive automation equipment.
The ability to simply print a replacement part could drastically reduce downtime and minimize the need to wait for parts, reducing the change of supply being at risk.
Read the case studyCEO of AMPC Australia
High-value food and beverage manufacturing applications
- Vacuum lifting tools
- Conveyor guiding hardware
- Custom brackets
- Safe guards & ergonomic handles
Optimize line changeovers
Customize tools and components to align with changing consumer preferences and market demands. Support rapid tool change-over between different standard SKUs or for faster new product introductions.
Ensure operator safety on the production line
Quickly respond to safety concerns on the factory floor to keep your line running. Design custom guards or ergonomic solutions at the point of need without waiting for long tool room queues or external machine shops.
Expand 3D printing on food and beverage factory floors with Nylon White FS
Nylon White FS is an unfilled, non-abrasive nylon that is certified by NSF to NSF/ANSI Standard 51, Food Equipment Materials and is compliant with FDA CFR Title 21.
It is ideal for production tooling and MRO applications on food and beverage factory floors, such as guides, chutes, pushers, and funnels, where the use of a food-contact certified material is required or preferred.
Listed 2024/10/11
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