MTR stands for Mean Time to Repair. In automated processing and packaging lines, Mean Time to Repair is the average time it takes to repair a machine once it malfunctions. It’s used to calculate how much buffering is required upstream or downstream. If your line’s longest MTR is 3 minutes, then you need at 3 [...]

We’ve been posting some more videos on YouTube lately as an alternative to the ones here on our website. Here’s a great one we just posted of our Infinity Rx vial accumulation table. It shows how we can take very unstable pharmaceutical vials and single file them to feed a filler, labeler, or inspection machine.

A typical mass flow or bi-directional table puts tremendous pressure on bottles. How do you prove that your accumulation table has no backpressure? Put a raw egg on the conveyor with a few rows of filled wine bottles and see what happens. Starring Lord William Chatterton III: The products stay in continuous motion because of [...]