Packaging and material handling are as vibrant and dynamic as ever, marked by the growth of e-commerce, the advent of more sustainable products and processes and the need for manufacturers to continually adapt to evolving consumer preferences. The industry must find a balance in which packages are sturdy enough for secure distribution, economical enough to minimize additional transaction costs and ideally sized for efficient, volumetric weight shipping.

All this must be achieved with the use of renewable materials and in a flexible material handling line that can quickly change from handling one product to another with minimal downtime. Conveyors, the lifeline of any packaging operation, must run reliability shift after shift at varying speeds with varying loads. To make all this happen, quality controls are paramount. With over seventeen million electrical control configurations and a UL508A panel shop, c3controls supports: