Swiss firm KNEUSS Güggeli is one of Switzerland’s leading poultry processors. It supplies its specialist poultry products to retailers and food outlets across the country. But with such an extensive customer base and product range, customers regularly order products in small non-standardized batches.
Each delivery contains a different selection and number of products — both when compared to other customers and other orders from the same customer. With an old-fashioned, conveyor-belt and manual sorting and picking process, preparing shipments for delivery was time-consuming, expensive, and prone to human error.
The switch to MagneMotion: fast, accurate and safe
Leaders at KNEUSS Güggeli knew they had to solve the problems in order processing. The old process was inefficient. It relied too heavily on human sorting. Given the complexity of the process, with no two orders ever the same, this increased the need for checking, inflating the labor overheads of an already labor-intensive workflow.
The only choice
To solve this problem, KNEUSS Güggeli called in Stöcklin Logistik AG, an OEM that specializes in material-handling technologies for precisely this kind of challenge. Stöcklin’s engineers took one look at the requirements and realized they were up against a challenge.
“We were faced with the need to accelerate the speed at which KNEUSS Güggeli could process packages, but to do so in a smaller space, without increasing the exposure of workers to hazards such as the fast-moving machine parts or excess noise levels,” explained Max Studer, lead engineer at Stöcklin.
Once his team understood the scope, nature and scale of the challenge, the solution was obvious. “It had to be Rockwell Automation MagneMotion,” said Studer. “MagneMotion is the only technology on the market that can do what we need it to do. It’s the only one that has the intelligence and the flexibility.”
