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Food & Beverage Industry Newsletter – September 2023

Are you still manually palletizing?

Optimizing efficiency and productivity is essential for maintaining your competitive advantage in today’s market. Manual palletizing is time-consuming, labor-intensive, prone to errors, and difficult for staff. Automating this process with a cobot is a great way to dramatically increase productivity, efficiency, and throughput.

 

The Cross CoPallet is an easy-to-implement collaborative robotic solution that enables you to immediately realize the benefits of automating manual palletizing. Features of the CoPallet include:

  • Heavy payload cobot- Up to 40lbs of payload enables the use of a collaborative robot solution for boxes that can pose ergonomic challenges to operators
  • Cross custom End of Arm Tool (EOAT)- Robust design provides the ability to pick a variety of boxes as well as pick multiple boxes at once to achieve faster throughput
  • Built-in vertical lift- Achieve stack heights up to 96”
  • Preprogrammed SKUs by our professional team ensure that the CoPallet is truly turnkey and arrives ready to palletize!

What's New at Cross

Getting the Most Out of Your Moisture Analyzer

For food manufacturers having a high quality moisture analyzer and knowing how to properly maintain and operate it is key. Moisture can impact the texture and quality of food. If your product is sold by weight, not properly monitoring moisture content could cost you thousands, if not millions, of dollars. Click below to read an article from Ohaus on how to get the most from your moisture analyzer.

 

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Cross Can Troubleshoot Scales Faster

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Cross technicians use a special testing device to troubleshoot scales that allows us to quickly detect faults. This allows us to get you up and running faster which means less downtime for you, saving time and money. So when your scales go down call Cross.

 

Case Study: Helping Breweries Cut Natural Gas Costs and Emissions Waste

Achieving heating process efficiency improvements cannot occur without more accurate, reliable flow meters to control the burn. This case study from FCI highlights the challenges faced by breweries, emphasizing the need to control natural gas consumption and reduce waste gas emissions for cost competitiveness and environmental compliance.

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Did you know?

Flexim ultrasonic flow meters can be used for verification of your existing flow meters without the need to stop your process? Flexim meters clamp onto the outside of your pipe and provide highly accurate flow measurements. If you are interested in flow verification contact us today.

 

Cross Provides Tangible Value for You

Reduce Risk

When it comes to industrial temperature measurement, two types of dial thermometers are typically used, bimetal and gas-actuated thermometers. Which measuring principle should be used depends on a number of different factors, such as response time, temperature limits & application range. Check out this video from our Supplier WIKA. They explain the differences in bimetal vs gas-actuated thermometers.

 

Improve Efficiency

Whether you need a control system upgrade or you are working on a completely new facility, letting Cross handle the design and integration of your controls system can save you and your team significant time.

Check out this case study to see how Cross helped Jack Daniels set up a new facility in Lynchburg, TN.

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Raise Quality

In food processing, preparation, and packaging environments, sanitation is critical. Having food scales that can withstand moisture, not just from the food items, but also from the environment, is essential.

For this reason, it is essential to employ high-quality stainless steel washdown scales like the OHAUS Defender™ 6000 Extreme Washdown Bench Scales designed to withstand high-temperature and high-pressure cleaning, as well as the expected spills, splashes, and heavy-handed usage common in such industrial work environments.

See how our team can help improve quality, increase efficiency, and reduce risk

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Did you know… Cross Company is an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). Our ESOP started in 1979 and as of 2006, we are 100% employee-owned! Learn more about our ESOP and how that benefits both team members and our customers.
Did you know... the precision measurement group at Cross was founded in 1939 by our current CEO's grandfather, Jim King. That's a whole lot of calibration!
Did you know... A fingerprint weighs about 50 micrograms. We know, we weighed it! The residue left from a finger can actually make a difference in weight results which is why we wear gloves when we calibrate weights. For reference, a sheet of paper is about 4.5 grams, that’s 4.5 million micrograms.
Did you know… Cross Company has grown significantly since our start in 1954. Over the years we've acquired 26 companies! Today, our five groups have expertise in everything from industrial automation to precision measurement, and industry knowledge going all the way back to 1939.