“While we were already dabbling in servos and motors, the change in ownership brought about a change in mentality within the employees,” explains Edson applications and estimating representative Andrew Putoczki.
“We really began to change with an eye looking toward the future, rather than just the present,” says Putoczki, citing the company’s flexibility to adapt to its customers’ ever-changing production needs and requirements as one of its key competitive strengths and edges.
Says Putoczki: “Our rapid prototyping capabilities and continuous design improvements help us surpass other suppliers in the same industry.
“We are innovative and able to adapt to new technologies for end-of-line packaging solutions for all sorts of packaged products–from a conventional carton to the latest flexible pouch, from personal-care items to frozen foods, from rolled paper products to folded ones.”
One of the company’s chief areas of expertise lies in the assembly of case-packing systems for handling large corrugated cartons favored by its customers in the paper tissue business–including Canadian industry giants Kruger Inc. and Irving Tissue, Inc.–and large dry-foods multinationals such as Kraft Canada Inc., Kellogg Canada Inc. and The Quaker Oats Company of Canada Limited.
Since the company’s inception, Edson has sold well over 1,000 machines, Putoczki reveals, today boasting system installations across five continents.
“It all comes down to our customer relationships,” notes Putoczki. “The fact that many of our past relationships are still current relationships is in many way thanks to our customer-care department’s nurturing.
“Also, our sales department is always chatting with every company that has one of our machines installed regarding the purchase of new custom-made machinery,” he adds, “or to see if a retrofit might be a better solution for them.”
One of the company’s more recently-developed case-packing systems is a new-generation RPD270 robotic packer incorporating a model PacDrive Robot D2 delta robot purchased from the Schomberg, Ill.-based packaging automation specialists ELAU, Inc.–the North American arm of the German-based industrial automation stalwart ELAU AG.
According to Hattin, the RPD270 robot packer employs a two-axis delta concept to enable greater reach and a larger payload efficiencies required for the more demanding case-packing applications–outperforming comparable articulated or gantry-style robots, and even some three-axis delta pick-and-place robots, that all expend lot of wasted servo motion.
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