Dare to be Better
Snack Food and Wholesale Bakery
August 2001
 COLONIAL
HEIGHTS, VA - At the Dare Foods plant in Spartanburg, S.C., hand
packing a multi-pack premium cracker for club stores was a challenge.
At first, the company brought in 10 or more temps to assist in the
hand packing process, but as volume got higher, they could not keep
up with the demand. BluePrint Automation, Inc., in Colonial Heights,
VA offered Dare a solution that rectified the multipack as well
as handled their other packaging needs.
Dare needed to create a premium cracker multi-pack by inserting
two slugs of one variety and two slugs of another variety in a container
at one time. The old system could only run one variety at a time.
BluePrint provided a system that helped design Work in Progress
(WIP) totes to allow for bulk packing of one variety of crackers
for storage in WIP containers. When running multi-pack, BluePrint
would alternately load from reintroduced WIP totes and from current
production. The case also packed individual slugs in large food
service cases and cartooned the slugs in master shipper cases.
Dare had previously been unable to find a company who could offer
the packaging design help, as well as a unique, cost effective and
uncomplicated solution in a compact footprint. “It’s
tripled our output”, says Jeff Wilson, plant manager at Dare
Foods. “Now we’re able to run the variety pack online
as opposed to having it as an offline operation. We were able to
increase flexibility and better respond to our customers’
needs.”
Dare is also able to use the same BluePrint system for its 12 pack
and 48-count pack. The company was also able to remove two people
from the packing process. “That certainly justified us purchasing
the equipment,” Wilson adds. Once Dare Foods partnered with
BluePrint Automation, all needs were satisfied. - Snack Food and
Wholesale Bakery
For more information contact:
Robbie Quinlin
Phone: 804-520-5400
E-Mail: robbie.quinlin@blueprintautomation.com
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