 Richard Bahr MGS President and CEO Visit Website |
Richard has 20 years of experience in management with MGS. He has overseen and directed the building of a growing organization and building of the MGS reputation in the marketplace. Richard has provided key leadership in initiating the development of at least one new product each year since becoming President in 1996. He has sat on multiple industry panels and is frequently sought after for commentary on pharmaceutical packaging automation, most recently regarding compliance packaging formats. He currently serves on the PMMI board of directors.
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Automation Q&A
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Asked July 15th, 2011
Ask yourself this: what is the annualized labor cost to do this manually? Most literature feeders (vacuum or friction styles) will cost less than one full-time person for one year. This means a payback of less than one year.
If this ongoing production requires literature, it’s pretty easy to justify automatic feeding. This will also improve quality because you can add automatic sensing to verify the placement. Several companies offer either friction feeders or vacuum feeders that can do this. My company offers both.
