Every daytime WPS is work on on achieving handsfree growing . What does this mean for nursery owner Thom Persoon of Forever Plants ? About 1.5 years ago this tropical plant grower bought a WPS sorting and shipping organisation . The organisation is consist of the following functionalities : camera sorting , buffering belt ( market place ) with watering channels , flexible order clean , and 8 packing stations . This automation work overview and savings in regards to labor .
“ Before our new WPS organization , we worked with smaller systems establish by WPS . Now that we have decided to give more greenhouse space for a larger buffering and sort organisation , we noticed it fetch us more peace of mind and overview in our order operation . For our employee the oeuvre is less vivid , their working post are designed to be at an optimum working height . All this combined creates an loose work flow , which in turn make our employee felicitous , " allege a grinning Thom between his foliage plants .
With a forklift pot fork , the plant are put on a so - called buffering smash terrace . From there the team moves the yucca ’s or other green plants to the separate buffer . They do this because they essay uniformity and some of the plants will have to go back to the glasshouse for a late engagement . Via another sorting judiciary the plant will go through a camera system . Here the plants are sorted for peak , grade etc . After this the plants are directed to the shipping buffer ( marketplace ) . The plants are staged here for orders . The camera system also automatically find out to which theatrical production belts the plants have to go . The systems ’ intelligence also makes sure there are no two rows of “ orotund “ plants next to each other . This to preclude any clinging from large branch while actuate over the designated scaffolding belts . plant and employees are visibly happier .
link software package necktie output and sales togetherBy yoke the ordering processing broadcast from SDF to the system of rules , orders are direct automatically to the wadding stations . In the past , they had to enter orders from one programme to the next , now everything flows over mechanically bring in us one step nigher to “ Hands - Free growth ” . Plants are being moved to the employees with the least amount of handling . “ This results in less stress for the plants , but also less stress for our packers , ” add Thom .
cooperator in process and SolutionsWPS has been a material partner for Forever Plants . fix the system as flexible as possible has been the real challenge for the WPS engineer . Robert , systems medical specialist at WPS , who was involved in the entire design process , says : “ All care the customer had for a system of rules descend together here . How can you apply sorting and cleaning functions ? Can this be combined in an order organisation , without an extra industrial plant touch , before they are move into the cargo ships buff ?
Service and sustentation are done togetherEvery WPS organisation involve sustenance . Forever Plants chose to commit their own expert faculty for even sustentation task and haunt jobs . This works well for the WPS service squad . When more complex and abstruse maintenance jobs come up the WPS team is stand by .
