Even if the actual candy is quite soft, it is difficult to make a candy. Jason Glade will know.
Jason is the current president and CEO Tafi TownHeadquartered in Utah, he originally worked in a production line that performed intense tasks to make Taffy. As an essential element of the family business from the beginning, he did not overlook his efforts to make a delicious product every day.
His direct experience was influenced by how the business is going on since he was a leadership position 27 years ago. Since then, he has continued to reveal new ways to improve business processes and employee safety.
Jason said, “If the equipment can do more difficult things and employees can think more in the long run, we will have more long -term success, maintain employees, and ultimately offer better products.
More participating employees = better products
With this continuous improvement, Taffy Town led to Redzone, a connected manpower solution for manufacturing.
Over the years, Taffy Town has worked with Redzone to improve operation and business decisions in Utah. He has succeeded in all fronts, including saving money and fostering happier employees, and the company began to consider how to reinvest these savings and reinvest employee satisfaction with production automation.
“We started with Redzone, but what are we going to do next time?” Jason said. “(Let’s use the staff to solve the problem, not to lift things all day.”
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Reinvest by automation
This is Jason’s recent speculation in Taffy Town’s operation and adds automation to the end of the company.
Jason said, “When you look at the staff, you want to use your head instead of muscles.
The company has been considering end automation for several years, but large -scale preoccupation has been deterrent. Until you find it formJason promised automation, a robot rental company that received a fixed fee, “I actually needs to spend a lot of money.
Jason said, “This is a speculative game. “We put it in CAPEX, but will we actually do what we want to do?” Jason found what he was looking for Formic automation is now full service Paletizer.
Taffy Town uses formic to have a full -supported turnkey solution without being submerged in equipment. Instead, pay the monthly fee fixed with equipment exchange, 24/7 technical support, 100% maintenance range and contract performance fee.
As a result, instead of stacking the box on the palette, the formal robot Paletizer manages the stacking at the end of Taffy Town’s bulk “workhorse” line. This means that employees can avoid bending, lifting, and twisting in a box that focuses on the process that cannot automate automation and repeatedly accumulated. In addition, a form of trained staff operates an automated solution and manages it in the process.
Jason added that if the official system is determined in a different direction while the official system works as promised, it will not be millions of dollars in traditional equipment purchase costs.
Taffy Town does not stop with Robotic Palletization. Candy manufacturers are also in the process of adding continuous kitchen systems to automate product placement.
We are doing our best to continue to improve
Taffy Town, a proud family owner, accepts automation and makes US manufacturing.
Most employees who stacked at the company’s Utah facility now manages different responsibilities. Jason said the first step is to focus on maintaining employees with a promise to continuous improvement.
“It’s hard to make candy,” he said. “It’s very hard. Therefore, we will be able to do something to improve safety, increase our lifespan, and employees will give more education and responsibility in the factory. ”
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