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RSSCompressor Maker Packs Fast With Confidence
May 13, 2004
When you are packing 500 compressors an hour, you don't have too much time to check to make sure the shipment is 100% correct. Customers expect perfection these days and are none too forgiving when errors occur, often leveling fines against suppliers to drive the point home.
Naturally, suppliers work hard to avoid such unpleasantness. Copeland Corporation in Sidney, Ohio, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Emerson, sought to maintain its packing speed while satisfying its customers, just as it has done for 80 years. Part of the Emerson Climate Technologies business group, Copeland is the world's leading manufacture of compressors for residential and commercial air conditioning and commercial refrigeration systems around the world. The company makes its products in 11 countries, producing more than 10 million compressors annually.
After careful consideration, Copeland installed a cost-effective packing verification system provided by The SMS Group featuring printers from SATO America and wireless hand-held terminals from Intermec. The result: end-of-line packing errors have been reduced to zero.
